Bangladesh

Nutrition security under threat Golam Mostafa Jibon: Production of fodders particularly for poultry, fisheries and cattle may stop at any time due to abnormal price hike of raw materials.There is a complaint that, a section of unscrupulous traders has created artificial crisis of raw materials on the plea of ongoing…

UNB: The government’s payment on interest for loans will increase in the coming days despite reducing the rate of interest on borrowings, according to an official document.The government has to pay some Tk 775.5 billion for interest payment in the coming 2022-23 fiscal which is 11.8 per cent of the…

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called the sanction against some Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel “a very condemnable act”, saying the elite force has a great contribution to contain militancy and terrorism in the country.“They (USA) protect the criminals and shelter them in their country and give sanction…

Trying to make syndicate Zarif Mahmud: Investments of institutional investors in most of the non-banking financial institutions or leasing companies listed on the capital market have increased. Institutional investors have increased their investments in 13 leasing companies in February this year. On the contrary, some have withdrawn their investment from…

Housing sector in deep crisis Mahfuz Emran: In the last two years, the global epidemic of coronavirus has hit the country’s housing sector hard. There was stagnation in these sectors like trade and commerce, office-court and education. Construction of many projects was stopped for a long time. After a while…

Staff Correspondent: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found information that former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha (S K Sinha) had bought a three-storey building in the United States (US).The documents in these connections have already reached hands of the ACC. According to ACC sources, the documents showed S K Sinha…

Staff Correspondent: The government has approved a project to provide safe water to the locals by conserving rain water in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. The cost of the top project ‘Supply of rain water through conservation of rain water in coastal districts’ has been estimated at Tk 961.65 crore.…

Golam Mostafa Jibon: Development activities especially works of housing sector are being hampered tremendously due to constant rising of brick prices caused by price hike of coal in phases, insiders said.Meanwhile, the prices of various qualities of bricks have been increased four phases on the pretext of coal shortage and…

Industry Desk: Last year, a total of 1,117 girl children were raped in Bangladesh which is a whopping 78.43% increase compared to the previous year.Besides, some 272 girls were killed in the corresponding year, mainly as a result of domestic violence, family feuds, attempts to remove assault evidence etc., according…

Market full of oil, sugar, gram Imports have outpaced demand Ayub Ali from Ctg: The holy month of Ramadan is coming. Demand for this specialty has grown significantly as a result of recent corporate scandals. As a result, sales also increased. But in Khatunganj, the largest wholesale market in Chittagong,…