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Information technology has become a blessing for the people of the country when the business sector and economy faced huge loss due to the coronavirus pandemic.The entire education system of the country has become online based now. The use of mobile internet including broadband internet has increase...
The government is framing strategies to make the state-run losing organisations profitable ones. The government has already taken initiatives to close down 25 state-owned jute mills running at a constant loss and shift them to the private sector. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Sugar and Food Indust...
A bridge that seemed impossible to construct by different international agencies has now become a reality and going to be a major medium for development of communication, trade, industry, tourism, and many other sectors of the country.Just before the celebration of the country’s 49th years of ...
Despite strict restrictions imposed by the authorities, various international airlines are allegedly carrying passengers to Bangladesh who do not have coronavirus negative test certificates. The Civil Aviation Authorities Bangladesh (CAAB) is strictly monitoring all incoming passengers’ C...
The ashes and wreckages left by the Pakistan occupation forces 49 years back have now become solid gold enriched with robust economy and infrastructures due to hard work of the people led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. After the 49 years of the independence, Bangladesh has been able to become...
The Padma Bridge will change the landscape of the country’s southwestern region, connecting a number of countries of South and Southeast Asia.Experts opine that the bridge will contribute largely to the development of communication, trade, industry, tourism, and many other sectors in var...
With the installation of the last span on Thursday the main work of the Padma Bridge is complete.The firm determination of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the bridge a reality despite various conspiracies.The Padma Bridge will open for traffic in June in 2022. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will ina...
The Ministry of Commerce has formulated a draft policy to facilitate the development of the e-commerce sector by controlling the anarchy created in the sector and protecting the interests of the consumers. The draft policy states that e-commerce companies will be obliged to deliver the product ...
To ensure sufficient rice supply against the local demand in the market as well as at the government’s warehouses, the authority concerned is going to fix the storage limit of paddy at every auto rice mill in the country. Food Secretary Dr. Mosammat Nazmanara Khanum told The Bangladesh Po...
To extract the untapped resources of the Blue Economy and get total advantage of ports and deep-sea ports, the government is keen to improve its shipping sector gradually. When ocean-based industries like shipping and others will be built they would contribute as key driving forces for flourish...
The country’s furniture exports have quadrupled over the past four years. The businessmen in the sector opine that import duty cut on raw materials will play a bigger role in increasing furniture exports in future. The industry at present enjoys annual growth of 18-20 percent. China ...
Following the unabated price hike of vegetables, rice, and edible oil, this week prices of fish and chicken have also gone high compared to last week. Traders said, as supply of fish decreases in winter and price of hilsa fish increases, prices of other fishes also go up. On the other hand, bro...
The government is now looking forward to be self-sufficient in onion production. A three-year roadmap is being formed to make the country dependable with its own production to meet onion demand by 2023.The roadmap scheduled from 2021 to 2023 will be implemented by agriculture ministry and a good num...
After rice, onion, and potato, the unholy nexus of a section of hoarders and traders, is now plotting to make the edible oil market unstable.Syndicate is creating an artificial crisis although there is an adequate of the kitchen items in the country. However, the government is struggling to put a le...
The country’s agriculture officials and farmers are expecting a bumper production of Aman paddy this year hoping it will help them to turn around and ensure food security amid various natural disasters and the coronavirus pandemic. The Aman rice production is expected to exceed 1.50 crore...
The test run of metro rail in the capital will be conducted in January next year as the work on the project is progressing fast, officials said.“We’re confident that we’ll be able to carry out trial run of metro rail at the beginning of the next year,” said a top official of ...
Despite adequate production of potatoes, the price of the vegetable is alarmingly high in the market as the cold storage owners are not releasing potatoes to meet the local demand to make extra profit, wholesalers claimed.Department of Agriculture Marketing statistics shows that about 11.9 million t...
Unscrupulous medicine dealers have allegedly raised prices of certain medicines, thought to be effective against coronavirus, by creating artificial crisis ahead of the possible second wave of the virus infection.Sources said certain antibiotics and some other supplementary medicines are now sold at...
Despite various government initiatives, the overall market situation is yet to witness relief with prices of nearly all daily necessities increasing abnormally, rendering consumers helpless. For the past few days, despite adequate stocks of potato, the price of the item has gone up unreasonably...
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Amid continuing price hike of onion and against the import target to meet the local demand, consumers still find arrival of inadequate amount of onions in the markets causing much sufferings to them, particularly the low-income people.The onion crisis, triggered by Indian imposition of a ban on onio...
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