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With funds unspent, deadline ends soon

Despite a five-year implementation window, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has made limited progress in terms of infrastructure development under the Covid-19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness project.Of the planned 500 intensive care unit (ICU) beds to be set up across 50 district headquarters hospitals (10 beds each),...

Fish farming boom lifts GDP

Bangladesh's fishing sub-sector saw a boom in recent years, and the impressive expansion facilitated the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, analysts say.Although the agriculture sector's growth fell in the outgoing fiscal year, the fishing sub-sector grew at 15.79 per cent, the provisional estimation of GDP at the current price...

Govt mulls signing rice import pact with India

The interim government mulls over making a rice-import pact with the government of India in order to help keep the former's distribution channel functioning, official sources said.The import of rice has been planned under a government to government (G2G) arrangement amid a chill in diplomatic relations between the two neighboring...

No new household gas connections

SYLHET, June 13 (BSS): Energy Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan clearly said on Friday that the government would not provide new gas connections to households."There is no possibility of providing gas connections to residences. If I had the opportunity, I would have turned off the gas connections to all houses...

BSF pushes 15 people into BD thru Dinajpur border

DINAJPUR, June 13 (BSS): The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has pushed 15 individuals into Bangladesh through the Dinajpur-Birampur border area of the district.Acting Commander of Dinajpur Fulbari Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-29 Major Md. Sajjadul Islam confirmed the information on Friday.A patrol team of the BGB-29 detained 15 people-- three...

UK team briefs CA on survey vessel HMS Enterprise

LONDON, June 13 (BSS): Lesley Craig, Head of the South Asia Regional Department, FCDO, UK, accompanied by Commodore Whalley, met Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus here today (Friday) to brief him on the naval, oceanographic and survey vessel HMS Enterprise that is being procured for the Bangladesh Navy.The HMS Enterprise...

A family getting off a bus on their return to Dhaka after spending their Eid holiday

A family getting off a bus on their return to Dhaka after spending their Eid holiday back at their village home as the capital is crawling back to life. The picture was taken at Sayedabad Bus Terminal. -FE photo