FE REPORT | 2023-06-03 00:00:00
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Friday said the proposed budget didn’t spell out any specific direction for the country’s export-oriented textile and clothing industry. Many of the proposals made by the trade body, including reducing source tax...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-03 00:00:00
Policy analysts at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) find the proposed national budget expansionary and framed on some “unrealistic assumptions” far from the reality of Bangladesh’s current economic dynamics.“When the inflation is unusually high, foreign-exchange reserves are down, fiscal...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-03 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said the proposed national budget for fiscal year (FY) 2023-24 would encourage and facilitate people in the country to get involved in more corruption and money laundering.TIB expressed its grave concern over lack of proper directions...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-03 00:00:00
None had got undisclosed money legalised during the last one year despite budgetary amnesty, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said Friday, although studies claim huge unaccounted-for funds run informal economy in Bangladesh.“In my budget speech last year I said if...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-06-03 00:00:00
This budget is not based on IMF prescriptions and it is implementable in Bangladesh’s current economic fundamentals, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said Friday while defending its full course of fiscal measures. He admits that the government accepts those suggestions of...
City road crashes kill twoTwo youth were killed in separate road accidents in the capital's Jatrabari area early Friday, police said. The dead are Md Miraz Mia (25), a garment worker, and Md Selim (23), a bus driver. In one...
Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country, in the next 24...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been able to seize various types of smuggled goods and arms and ammunition worth Tk 282.33 crore during raids in the country's border areas and other places in May, reports UNB.The seized items include 20...
Four more people were hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning, reports UNB.Of the new patients, two were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and the rest outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Three-hundred-thirty-two dengue...
Lawmaker Nahim Razzaq, member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Convenor of Climate Parliament Bangladesh, speaking at a breakthrough idea contest event titled "Envoframe" at North South University (NSU) in the city on Monday
Prof Dr Mohammed Farashuddin, Chief Adviser of East West University and former Bangladesh Bank governor, speaking at the orientation programme for the newly-enrolled students of the Summer Semester 2023 of the university on its Aftabnagar campus in the city on...
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal addressing the passing out parade of 773 new entry sailors of A-23 batch at BNS Titumir in Khulna on Wednesday — ISPR
FE REPORT | 2023-06-03 00:00:00
A fire incident took place at a 20-storey building in the capital's Shyamoli area on Thursday night, leaving one person dead. An official at the Fire Service and Civil Defence central office told the FE that the fire incident occurred...
Two more people died of Covid-19 and 89 fresh cases were recorded in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, reports UNB.This is the first Covid deaths in 66 days.With the new numbers, the country's total fatalities rose to 29,448...
President Mohammed Shahabuddin has reached Turkey's capital Ankara to attend the oath taking ceremony of Turkish President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be held today (Saturday), reports UNB."A VVIP aircraft (Flight No-BG 207) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the President along...
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque expressed satisfaction over the just announced national budget for FY23-24, saying this will benefit the poor, promote agriculture, and improve rural livelihoods, reports UNB. He called the budget as among the best, as it aims...
GAZIPUR, June 02, (BSS): Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a warranted fugitive war criminal from Sreepur upazila of the district on Wednesday.The arrested was identified as Md Shahar Ali, 76, son of late Javed Ali, resident of Phulpur upazila of...
RAJSHAHI, June 02 (BSS): Symbols were allocated among the contenders in the upcoming election of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) on Friday.Rajshahi Regional Election Officer Delwar Hossain said they allocated symbols to four mayoral candidates, 112 general councillors and 46 women...
GAZIPUR, June 02 (UNB): Krishak Sramik Janata League president Bangabir Kader Siddique called the recent US visa policy a matter of great shame for Bangladesh, 'regardless of how the two parties perceive it'."It is a disgrace to the entire country....
The budgetary allocation against the Election Commission has been increased by nearly Tk 9.0 billion for the upcoming fiscal year when the next general election will be held, reports UNB. The allocation against the EC Secretariat in the proposed national...
CHATTOGRAM, June 02 (UNB): At least eight people were injured in clashes between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League at Chittagong University in the last two days.An assistant proctor of the university, police and six activists of Chhatra League were...
BNP Chairperson's Adviser Zainul Abdin Farroque, also a former opposition chief whip, speaking at a seminar styled 'Which way is acceptable election' organised by Centre for Democracy and Peace Studies at the National Press club in the city on Friday...
Terming the proposed budget for the next fiscal year unrealistic, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said it will not help overcome the dire economic crisis the country is facing now, reports UNB."The government is saying an...
Awami League's (AL) press conference on the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024 will be held today (Saturday), reports BSS.General Secretary of the party and minister of road transport and bridges Obaidul Quader is scheduled to address the press...
CHATTOGRAM, June 02 (BSS): Lawmaker of Chittagong-10 and former primary and mass education minister Dr Afsarul Amin died at a hospital in the capital this afternoon. He was 65.Dr Afsarul Amin, who had been suffering from cancer for the last...
Awami League Joint General Secretary and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has termed the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 as pro-people and pro-poor. At the same time, he said, criticism of the budget's critics is as...
Joe Biden 'fine' after fall on stage in ColoradoWASHINGTON, June 02: President Joe Biden is "fine" after tripping and falling over at an event in Colorado, White House officials say. He stumbled on a sandbag while handing out diplomas at...
SINGAPORE, June 02 (Reuters): Asia's top security meeting opened on Friday, with intensifying competition between the United States and China expected to dominate a weekend of high-level speeches, backroom military dealings and delicate diplomacy.The Shangri-La Dialogue, which attracts senior military...
LONDON, June 02 (BBC): A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer has shown real promise in a major NHS trial, researchers say.The test correctly revealed two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited...
KYIV, June 02 (BBC/Reuters): The United States (US) is seeking to secure supplies of TNT in Japan for 155mm artillery shells, as Washington rushes weapons and ammunition to Ukraine for a counteroffensive against Russian forces, two people familiar with the...
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