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The government has not been able to dope test any driver even in the two years since the road law was passed. The test was one of the 111 recommendations of the National Road Safety Council to restore discipline on the roads. However, transportation experts said drug-addicted drivers are l...
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The country’s local production of mobile phone handsets is likely to increase in the coming days as the government is encouraging local entrepreneurs/ manufacturers by increasing mobile import duty in the budget for the next fiscal year. The proposal was also made to extend the existing ...
Higher price of jet fuel is hindering the growth of the country’s aviation industry while airliners fear that passengers will decline in the domestic routes due to higher costs of air travel. According to airlines, fare on Dhaka to Saidpur route has been increased seven times in last one ...
Due to mechanization, the country’s agricultural sector is booming despite a reduction of arable land and other problems. As a result of the multiple benefits of mechanization, farmers are increasingly turning to agricultural machinery. With the reduction in crop production using agricult...
Many Value Added Service (VAS) providers are reportedly ‘pushed’ on some services on mobile phone despite opting not to receive such promotional text messages by many subscribers.Acknowledging such unethical practice, an official of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTR...
Some foreign fruits like Malta, orange and others will go beyond the consumer purchasing capacity, if the additional tariff on import in the proposed budget is not withdrawn. Foreign fruits importers in a recent post budget reaction expressed such doubt. The budget for the fiscal year has ...
In the recent years many farmers have turned to cultivating foreign fruits in Bangladesh due to favourable weather and soil texture.Farmers are said to prefer cultivating mostly fruits from Thailand where the weather is almost similar. Fruits like dragon, baromasi, mango, strawberry and Malta are po...
Chemical business in the capital’s Old Dhaka area is still continuing despite repeated fatal accidents. Businessmen say they have no other option but to continue the trade where they are as they are yet to get a new location from the government. As the new Chemical Industrial Park is...
The government is relentlessly trying to upgrade the country’s communication infrastructure. In this continuation, feasibility study of Metrorail route-5 is about to begin. An agreement has been signed between Dhaka Mass Transit Communication Limited (DMTCL) and EGIS RAIL, S.A, (France) J...
Aiming at developing world-class road communications network, the government has made a massive progress in extensive communications system across the country.Besides roads and flyovers, there is a plan to build subways in the country. After the 50 years of independence, the communications system of...
The present government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is consistently working to reach out to the rural people the world-class healthcare including eye care by establishing a specialized hospital in every district.Those specialized hospitals will be especially well- equipped with all modern ame...
The government is losing huge revenue every month as a good number of local and foreign video streaming sites are continuing their business without regulations.Besides this revenue-evading act, these digital video streaming online sites like Netflix, Hoichoi, Bioscope and Bing are running offensive ...
The government has taken 10-year master plan for the development of agriculture in the southern region of the country.Extensive activities have been undertaken to bring fallow and uncultivated land under farming to grow additional food grains under the plan. If the 10 lakh 56 thousand hectares ...
The government is going hard on selling and producing of adulterated and expired food items in order to ensure safe food for all. Amendments in the existing food act proposes fines up to 12 lakh taka and five years of imprisonment for violating clauses or rules in the law.At the same time, stri...
The airlines authorities are taking initiatives to bring all the country’s major cities under air connectivity without any interval. “We are going to connect bridges between the major cities directly. So, when we launch our direct flights, the passengers from Saidpur would not have...
The government is planning to make Bangladesh Cyber Security Service a providing hub for the world. Keeping this in mind it is now moving towards achieving the cyber security capabilities, according to the Ministry of Information and Technology and Cyber Crime Security Unit sources.On the condi...
The country’s Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector needs to be offered more times and flexible repayment schedules to pay back loans in order to get the advantage of survival as the second wave of Covid-19 is now surging in different foreign countries mainly the US and Europe. Entrepreneurs o...
There would be no food crisis in the country as adequate food grains remain stocked in government warehouses and the houses of farmers.According to the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), repeated floods with heavy rains have damaged Aman paddy in 35 districts, but considering the year-round ...
Increase in investment, revenue collection and new job creation must get top priority from the very beginning of this New Year in order to rejuvenate the country’s financial sector as the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic is now sweeping across the world, experts said.They termed those factors ...
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Bangladesh is now well recognized for its unprecedented economic growth, progress in poverty reduction, education, health and communication sectors.The once poverty-stricken country is today an 'emerging tiger' of Asia. The tide of development is everywhere from the capital to remote village...
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