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Govt won't allow supply shortage of essentials

The government would not allow the creation of a short supply of essential commodities, Finance and Commerce Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed said Wednesday.Necessary steps will be taken to keep people free from stress, he told newsmen after a meeting of the Adviser's Council Committee on Government Purchase at the Cabinet...

CA invited to join D-8 Summit in Cairo

Egypt has invited Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the interim government, to attend the D-8 Summit in Cairo this December.The conference of heads of government of Developing-8 (D-8) will be hosted in the Egyptian capital from December 16 to 19.Egyptian ambassador to Bangladesh, Omar Fahmy, handed over the...

UN for national healing after political upheavals

Inequality, cycles of revenge and retribution, marginalization, corruption, and gross human-rights violations must be consigned to the past, UN rights-body chief Volker Türk suggests for Bangladesh's post-uprising transition.Addressing a press briefing Wednesday to wrap up his two-day visit to Dhaka, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights assured that...

Banks don't need prior BB approval to remit money abroad

Bangladesh Bank has relaxed foreign exchange rules allowing banks to remit bandwidth services-related payments abroad without prior approval from the central bank.The authorised dealer (AD) banks may remit payments against bandwidth services imported by the business entities incorporated in Bangladesh subject to observance of some instructions, according to a circular...

Dhaka traffic tumbles amid street demos

A double knock of street demonstrations Wednesday by seven-college students for a separate university for them and by jobseekers demanding service-age-limit raised to 35 years created nagging traffic impasse in Dhaka for hours. Delivering an ultimatum for conceding to their demand by Saturday, the seven-college students affiliated with Dhaka University...

Low-cost hajj packages announced

The interim government has unveiled two hajj packages for 2025 with the lowering of pilgrimage costs significantly.Religious affairs adviser AFM Khalid Hossain announced the new packages at a press briefing at his secretariat office on Wednesday.This year, the government fixed more than Tk 0.47 million (478,241) as the minimum cost...

Govt to form 'National Maritime Port Strategy', says adviser

The government has embarked on the formulation of a 'National Maritime Port Strategy' to advance the country's maritime sector.Brigadier General (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain, adviser of the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Textiles and Jute, informed the matter at a review meeting held at the Ministry of Shipping...

Dengue claims 4 more lives

Four more deaths due to dengue were reported in the 24 hours leading up to Wednesday morning, raising the total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 290 this year.In the recent fatalities, two were reported in Chattogram Division, and one each in Dhaka Division (excluding city corporation) and...