Country needs policy actions to address COVID-induced economic shocks

The country needs quickly designed and roll out policy actions and reforms on long-standing issues holding back private investment in order to effectively address the unfolding impact of COVID-led economic shocks, said speakers at a dialogue on Sunday.They said ientification of new opportunities that COVID presents, aligning critical reforms with country’s formal development strategies, actively exploring new investment sources such as from those in Europe and South Asia, aligning the vision of the top policy makers with the actions at the implementation level, addressing tax and foreign exchange constraints were highlighted as some of the immediate priorities to boost the investment climate in the country to help stimulate recovery the investment dynamism in a post-COVID world.The views were shared at  the third Resurgent Dialogue ‘ Private Investment in Uncertain Times: COVID Impact and Policy Implications for Bangladesh’, organized by Resurgent Bangladesh, an ...

‘Othoba.com’ launches online cattle market

Popular e-commerce site ‘Othoba.com’ has launched ‘Online Kurbani Mela’ to facilitate the customers to purchase sacrificial animals from home to avoid risk of getting infected amid corona outbreak. The e-commerce site will deliver the animals to the customer doorstep at specific time. Othoba.com started accepting the order on July 12 and will continue till July 25. Therefore, the customers will also be able to place order through the othaba.com’s helpline 09613...

Accountable, transparent public finance a must for resilient economy

The strongest and most resilient economies will be those where people can trust information so that leaders can make well-informed decisions, businesses can be held to account and public finances are transparent, said sp...

Railway revenue increases in Ctg

Every day two freight trains are leaving for different parts of the country. These goods transport trains have been leaving Chittagong to meet the food shortage since the corona virus infection in the country.Not only food trains, but also oil and container trains are leaving from Chittagong. While the revenue of the passenger train of the railway is lagging due to corona, railway Chittagong division has earned about Tk 15 crore in 3 months by transporting goods.General Manager (Additional Responsibilities) of Eastern Railway Sardar Shahadat Ali said, “I am operating goods trains from Chittagong to all over the country during the corona period. In order to meet the food shortage in the country, the goods transport train is running normally even during the lockdown. Our activitie...

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BCB set to induct a sports psychologist into setup

Bangladesh Cricket Board is planning to include a sport psychologist in their national set-up and High Performance unit in the coming days, BCB chief physician Debashish Chowdhury confirmed to Cricbuzz on Saturday.A BCB official said that they would assess the development of the Bangladesh Women and Under-19 side in the coming days as they would be having sessions with Ali Khan, a Bangladesh-born Canadian sports psychologist, who has worked previously with Bangladesh's national cricketers on two occasions.BCB game development and women's wing chairman on Saturday approved the proposal of appointing a sports psychologist after it was tabled by the BCB's medical team recently for players of their respective wings."We have got the approval today by BCB game development and women's wing and it has been decided that we will bring the under-19s and Women's sides under the purview of these psychologists as soon as possible," Chowdhury said."And we have plans in the future to gradually bring High Performance and the national team under the purview of these sessions. But we're taking a look at how these work on a test basis. While our primary discussion with him [Ali] is over and he said that he wanted three to five sessions, we had to discuss some more of these technical issues with him. We want to do this in three sessions and if someone needs a separate special session, we will arrange a separate special session for them." Debashish added that they chose Ali over other candidates as he spoke Bengali and had a unique mode of op...

Anti-graft purge fails to achieve expected result

Bangladesh has had a problem with corruption for a long time. Following the pillow scandal at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, the recent casino scandal and the Regent Hospital’s corona test sca...

Health sector corruption

The health sector is at the center of scrutiny for the raging Covid-19 crisis that has been going on in the world and the country. Several irregularities have been spotted in the sector and its personnel raising questions about its effectiveness.&nbs...

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