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In the current economic stagnation due to the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, revenue collection has already been stumbled. In this situation, the government is going to set a target of huge revenue collection for the next 2020-21 financial year.According to the relevant sources of the ...
The coronavirus pandemic has badly hit the country’s steel industry with steel and iron production stopped due to a shortfall of raw materials mainly imported from China.Different associations related to the industry estimated that in the first six months of this year, the industry is going to...
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The coronavirus pandemic has eaten into the vitals of thousands of crores of taka in the country’s business activity in the advent of the biggest Muslim religious festival Eid-ul- Fitr.Businesses have severely collapsed because of the coronavirus-driven lockdowns that began March 26 and extend...
Despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country, various sectors have started operation on a limited scale. However, the tourism industry has become completely stagnant due to the ongoing crisis.A recent Bangladesh Tourism Board (BTB) statistics showed that, 14 lakh people who are directly involved ...
Distribution of relief and cash incentives among the poor gets momentum as the government high-ups have activated the disaster management system which is kept in full preparedness as per the administrative standard and procedures.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s bold decision assigning bureaucra...
In a desperate attempt to put the brakes on the ferocious spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the government has embarked on increasing the quantity of food stock with storing huge rice, wheat, pulses and other essentials.The preparations to cope with any possible crisis period are designed to ensur...
Though markets and shopping malls in the capital Dhaka are not besieged by Eid-shoppers, poor social distancing and no abidance of health guidelines by the buyers at the markets pose a threat to increasing the risk of spreading coronavirus.Not maintaining of minimum physical distance coupled with no...
Though 45 days have already elapsed since the shutdown, transport leaders are still to stand beside the workers of the sector.Most transport workers earned on a daily basis, and are now the worst sufferers passing inhuman lives across the country.However, none has come forward with helping hands to ...
The construction work of the country’s much-hyped Metro Rail is continuing on a limited scale while first ready train from Japan is scheduled to arrive in the country on June 16 amid the lockdown imposed to halt the spread of coronavirus.Road Transport and Bridges Ministry’s additional c...
Major retailers worldwide who were cancelling or postponing export orders in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, have now started to place their orders again, bringing a ray of hope to the Readymade Garment (RMG) sector, following the reopening of factories in the country.Immediately after the res...
When the economic situation of the country is halted and everything has come to a standstill due to the prevailing pandemic lockdown, the finance ministry is targeting to collect huge amounts of revenue of Tk 330000 crores.Such a bigger revenue plan has surprised the country’s economists and a...
Amid the global communication disruption due to coronavirus pandemic, virtual world become the most effective means to do almost everything with people in Bangladesh enjoying the benefit of digitalization.This time, the vision of Digital Bangladesh under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin...
The government decision to open markets and shopping malls from May 10, has ushered a glimmer of hope among the wholesale and retail clothes traders, now preparing to conduct trade targeting the largest festival, Eid-ul-Fitr.Welcoming the government decision, Shop Owners Association president Helal ...
Though dragged down by all-engulfing coronavirus pandemic, huge possibilities are peeping on the opposite side for the country as it can witness huge export orders and foreign investment in a changing world order after the pandemic.The global economic downturn, Europe's negative attitude towards...
A large number of transport workers have been passing a very tough time as their only earning source is halted amid the general holiday due to Coronavirus pandemic. Their woes and jeopardy to run their families are now colossal. And this situation may be deteriorated for the transport workers as the...
Hospitals that were selected for treating the coronavirus patients have already gone beyond their capacities to provide further patients’ care as infection rates swelling across the country.Dr Mahabubur Rahamn, focal person of Mugda Medical College Hospital Corona Committee informed that, they...
In this time of woes triggered by coronavirus scare, readymade garment and other industrial workers have been staging demonstrations for the last few days demanding their due wages and arrears.Their continuous protests in and around the capital and its adjacent districts have posed a great threat of...
Mango growers and traders, especially in the northern region, may suffer huge losses in this season due to the nationwide lockdown amid the novel coronavirus crisis.While mangoes, the most juicy and delicious fruit of the summer season, are scheduled to start appearing in the local markets in the Ra...
Immediate protection is a must for emergency service providers like physicians, nurses, journalists and law enforcers in the current Covid-19 infectious situation.A good number of healthcare professionals, law enforcement agencies and other emergency service providers who are in the battleground fig...
With the end of the ongoing lock down, which has sparked unprecedented distress, nowhere in sight, the middle class section of the populace has now been thrown into a ‘new poor’ identity.With no public transport and strict orders to practice social distancing, people, especially lower in...
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