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BD seeks EU, EIB investment in vital dev sectors

Bangladesh seeks foreign investments in vital development sectors at high-level talks held in Italy for deepening cooperation with key international financial partners, including the EU and the European Investment Bank. On the sidelines of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Milan, Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin...

Khaleda returns home today

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is scheduled to return home this morning from London, according to party sources.BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, son of Khaleda Zia, already bade her farewell in London on Monday.Khaleda Zia will arrive in Dhaka around 10:30am today by a royal air ambulance sent by the emir...

Gold prices increase 20th time this year

The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus) increased the price of gold again, with the price of pure gold up by Tk2310 per bhori, effective from today (Tuesday), reports UNB.Earlier, Bajus had fixed the 22-carat gold price per bhori at Tk 1,68,976 on Saturday, effective from Sunday.Masudur Rahman, Chairman of Bajus's Price...

MoU signed for smooth payments to QatarEnergy

State-owned Bangladesh Oil Gas and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh Krishi Bank to make its 50 per cent invoices payments of LNG imported from QatarEnergy, reports UNB.As per the contract, signed on Monday at Petrobangla's meeting room-1 in the city, the BKB will...

Dhaka, Abu Dhabi likely to start talks in May

Dhaka and Abu Dhabi are expected to start first negotiations on the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) within this month, aiming to boost bilateral trade which will help Bangladesh navigate the economic challenges in post-LDC regime, sources said.To this end, the commerce ministry has already formed a high-powered trade...

ACC files cases against Papon, his wife

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed two separate cases against Nazmul Hassan Papon, former youth and sports minister and former president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), and his wife Roksana Hasan on charges of amassing wealth of Tk 320.75 million beyond their known sources of income and conducting suspicious...

Arable land protection law to be enacted in two months: Adviser

The proposed Land Zoning and Protection Act is likely to be enacted within the next couple of months, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser of the ministries of environment, forests, climate change, and water resources, said on Monday."We are hopeful that we will be able to pass the agricultural land protection law...

Trump threatens 100pc tariff

NEW YORK, May 5 (AP): President Donald Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the U.S.In a post Sunday night on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he has authorized the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to...

Scrap 635mw coal-based power plant at Matarbari

Some 144 civil society organisations (CSOs) across the country jointly submitted letters Monday to the Advisers of the Ministries of Finance, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR), and the Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) demanding the cancellation of the proposed 635 MW coal-fired...