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Ctg to be ‘among world’s top 30 seaports’ by 2030

The country's prime seaport Chittagong ought to be turned into one of top 30 seaports in the world, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Tuesday, setting a timeline up to 2030. "I believe this should be among the top 30 seaports in the world within the next thirteen years," he said...

BD, Myanmar form jt working group to repatriate Rohingyas

Bangladesh and Myanmar formed a joint working group on Tuesday to start next step of work for repatriation of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh and signed the terms of reference (TOR), reports UNB.The agreed TOR mandates the JWG to undertake all necessary measures to start the safe and voluntary return, resettlement...

BEA biennial confce begins tomorrow

The 20th biennial conference of the Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) begins tomorrow (December 21), which is expected to come up with a set of recommendations to help the government in its efforts to achieve the 'middle-income country' status by 2021.With the theme 'Economics and Ethics', the three-day conference will also...

A comedy of bloopers

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as a work of William Shakespeare. Whether the theorem extends to music of the type Ludwig Van Beethoven composed may...

Foreign aid inflow jumps by 91pc in five months

Bangladesh received US$1.72 billion worth of foreign aid in July-November period this fiscal year (FY2017-18).The disbursements of the concessional medium- and long-term (MLT) assistance were 91 per cent higher than $903.18 million registered in the corresponding period of last FY (2016-17), according to provisional data released Monday.Of the total assistance,...

Three go missing in Savar in five days

SAVAR, Dec 19 (UNB): Three people including a college student and a prayer leader of a local mosque have gone missing from the upazila in last five days.The missing are identified as Sharif Hossain, 18, son of Anwar Hossain Ripon, a resident of Aragaon area under Ashulia Police Station and...