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Gas supply uncertain despite Tk 15,000 crore transmission pipeline
Mahfuz Emran : Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) has undertaken a total of nine projects for the establishment of gas transmission lines. Four of them are in progress. The financing of the remaining five has not yet been confirmed, the officials said. The total cost of these nine projects has…
Read More »Trouble with sugar
Dr Enayet Karim : Sugar is a sweet little white grain. The English name of sugar is ‘Sugar’. But in Bengali, the word Chini is used in more than one sense. As a noun ‘sugar’ means ‘sugar’; Again, as a verb ‘sugar’ means to know someone. Children students have to…
Read More »Officials behind rice market manipulation
Food Minister invites meeting on Feb 29 Syed Nasir Hossain : The rice market can’t be kept normal due to the negligence, carelessness and greed of some dishonest officers and employees at the field level of the food department. It is their responsibility to see whether traders are complying with…
Read More »Police seeks interest-free loans for buying cars
Staff Correspondent : The type of crime and criminals in the country is changing. In many cases major crimes are being committed through misuse of technology. The police want to increase their capacity to deal with these. For this reason, interest free loans and financial incentives are being demanded to…
Read More »Date jams at port but fire in market
Staff Correspondent : In order to take advantage of the duty exemption, the importers had made a ‘slow-down’ plan to release the dates from the port. However, the ‘mind like’ duty did not decrease. Meanwhile Roja is knocking on the door. As a result, their lantern of hope has been…
Read More »ACC plans to rebuild anti-graft operations
Will present plan to President soon Mahfuja Mukul : The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) wants to set up a research and development cell to combat and prevent corruption. The organization is interested in setting up a cell or unit to understand trends, identify types and devise new ways to combat corruption.…
Read More »Trust in dollar no won crawling peg
Dr Enayet Karim : The economy, saddled with the dollar during last two years, is yet to recover from its severe bad condition. Not only that; At this time the crisis has increased. Reserves, which were $48 billion, have now decreased to $20 billion. Imports have been tightened to protect…
Read More »How crawling peg to phase out dollar crisis
Staff Correspondent : The central bank has rolled out a plan to introduce an interim crawling peg system for the taka to regulate abrupt fluctuations of its value, paving the way towards a fully flexible regime in the future.The system will be tethered to a carefully chosen basket of currencies…
Read More »Gas shortage 1000 mcf against demand
Staff Correspondent : State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said that the shortage of gas against the demand in the country is about 1000 million cubic feet.He said this in the session of National Parliament on Sunday.He said, currently around 250 million cubic feet of gas…
Read More »Seven high ways coming under toll
Syed Nasir Hossain : A total of seven more roads and highways are coming under toll shortly.The Roads Directorate is currently collecting tolls from vehicles on four roads in the country.Along with this, the organization has decided to bring seven more roads under toll.The roads are Dhaka-Rangpur, Dhaka-Sylhet, Sylhet-Tamabil, Dhaka-Chittagong,…
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Hotels to be converted for Covid hospitals
Hospitals overwhelmed Staff Correspondent: The government is going to rent hotels for providing treatment …
