FE REPORT | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
Banks and financial institutions should introduce innovative instruments to convince small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) to integrate into formal banking channels, says Dr Khondakar Golam Moazzem."Banks think that SMEs aren't bankable, but it's not hard to observe that these small businesses are...
Salman F Rahman, the prime minister's adviser for private industry and investment, has warned of an impending gas crisis if the prices in the international market do not go down in six months, reports bdnews24.comEveryone might be talking about fuel...
An aerial view of the Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Bridge over the Kocha river in Pirojpur. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the eighth Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge on 4 September. Story on page 3 — Focus Bangla
Monira Munni | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
The country's overall exports to India reached US$1.99 billion in the last fiscal year (FY '22) marking a robust 55 per cent year-on-year growth. Bangladesh shipped goods worth US$1.27 billion to the neighbouring country in the fiscal year 2020-21 or...
Most complaints addressed thru CCAMAround 91.1 per cent of the investors' complaints submitted online have been addressed through the securities regulator's Customer Complaints Address Module (CCAM) in nearly three years. The BSEC introduced the CCAM on September 30, 2019 and...
The daily wages for the tea estate workers have been raised to Tk 170 from Tk 120, a senior official said on Saturday night, reports UNB.Apart from this, the other facilities for the workers will be increased proportionately.Prime Minister's Principal...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
Private oil-fired power-plant owners have sought compensation for fluctuations in exchange rates. They are now claiming to have incurred losses on account of import of furnace oil used to run the power plants.The owners are seeking 'true-up payments' from the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
Global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has considered Bangladesh's exchange rate regime as a crawl-like arrangement, though the trading mechanism was further liberalised in June 2022.Since then, the taka's nominal exchange rate has depreciated by about 10 per cent...
Farmers are busy collecting their jute plants at a field at Imamganj of Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj. The growers said they were happy with the yield this time around as a maund of jute was being sold at Tk 2,500-3,000....
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
Above14 key essentials and services have become costlier by 15-40 per cent just in last three months, biting a good portion on real income of millions of people, said market insiders.Costly diesel, rocketing import costs followed by appreciation of US...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder on Saturday expressed his optimism that forex-market volatility and inflationary pressure on the economy would ease in the next two to three months.The central bank would take measures to allow the market to determine...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24-hour from 06:00 am today (Sunday), according to the Met Office.It may also...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
In a bid to cool off the prevailing volatile price situation, the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) conducted a drive at Babu Bazar wholesale rice market in the capital on Saturday. Assistant Director of DNCRP Dhaka office Abdul...
OUR CORRESPONDENT CHATTOGRAM, Aug 27: A trolley-man of Civil Aviation Department has been detained with four pieces of gold bars worth approximately Tk 3.2 million at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport.He was arrested from the airport parking lot at 10:30...
Family members of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam pay homage to the poet by placing floral wreaths on his grave beside the Dhaka University Central Mosque in the city on Saturday, marking his 46th death anniversary — Focus Bangla
Two more people died from Covid, and 156 tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh in the 24 hours until Saturday morning, reports UNB.While the country's total fatalities reached 29,323, the new number took its caseload to 2,011,100, according to...
SAJIBUR RAHMANSome 62 per cent of the rural households lost income during the Covid pandemic, while 42 per cent reported employment losses, according to a new study. The surveyed households include those who were dependent on micro, small, and medium-sized...
Education Minister Dipu Moni on Saturday dismissed as false some social media speculation that religious studies are being excluded from the new curriculum for students, reports UNB.She was talking to the media after attending a programme at the National Press...
PIROJPUR, Aug 27 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the eighth Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge in Pirojpur district on September 4. Once open, the bridge will connect Pirojpur with southeastern districts of the country as well as mitigate the unemployment...
MUNIMA SULTANAThe Dhaka Metro Rail company is so far ahead of its schedule in completing the major works to launch the first phase of MRT from Uttara to Agargaon in mid-December.However, sources said the project's most challenging part remains in...
SATKHIRA, Aug 27 (UNB): A 45-year-old man who was serving jail terms in a case filed over the attack on the motorcade of then Bangladesh opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002, died at a...
GENEVA, Aug 27 (BSS): Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has urged the expatriate Bangladeshis and Awami League (AL) men to report against anti-state rumour mongers and malice disseminators staying abroad to their concerned countries.The minister made the call...
Stating that constitutional dictatorship has been established in the country, Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Saturday alleged that practising democracy is not possible when all powers are there in one person's hands, reports UNB. "Those who unfairly gave HM...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the United States has imposed sanctions on some Bangladeshi law enforcement officials without any specific information, reports UNB.The minister said this after attending a conference at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in...
Veteran Awami League (AL) leader Amir Hossain Amu on Saturday said nowadays the country's left politicians are making comments which are conflicting with their own political philosophy and principles, reports BSS."Leftists are making comments in the tone of BNP-Jamaat," he...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 27 (BSS): As many as three cases were filed against 400 people on Friday night in connection with the clash between the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and police in Banskhali upazila of the district which left...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the main goal of BNP is to bring down the government so that it (BNP) can bring back 'Hawa Bhaban' in the country through...
BNP on Saturday accused the government of trying to give legitimacy to all the human rights violators by including Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed in Bangladesh's delegation to join the United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit in New York,...
TOWNSVILLE, Australia, Aug 27 (AP): Australia has an early start to its summer season of cricket when Zimbabwe makes its first appearance for a one-day international series in the country since 2004.The teams will play three ODIs in seven days...
Hours before the opening match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and DP World jointly announced a new title sponsorship that will see the upcoming six-nation men's T20 cricket tournament renamed as the DP World Asia...
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