Bangladesh

Gas tariff hike proposal Staff Correspondent: A 3-day public hearing on the proposed gas tariff hike at retail level will begin today.Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) will hold the hearing at the BIAM Auditorium in the city from 10 am to 5 pm everyday on March 21-24 to listen to…

Staff Correspondent: Experts have suggested that the government’s uninterrupted strict market monitoring both at wholesale and retail levels can contain the price hike of daily essentials, blaming the global pandemic and recent Russia-Ukraine war for rising price of commodities.They also stressed imposing ban on hoarding of essential commodities, motivating people…

Staff Correspondent: Moving up seven notches on the Happiness Index, Bangladesh was ranked 101st among 149 countries of the world this year. The country ranked the 101st happiest last year and 107th in 2020.According to World Happiness Report 2022 published on Friday, Finland was the happiest country for the fifth…

Buriganga River Restoration project Golam Mostafa Jibon: The water of Jamuna is yet to reach at Buriganga river even after spending crores of Taka in the name of Buriganga River Restoration project. As a result, question is spiraling that when the Buriganga will get new life with Jamuna water through…

Industry Desk: The country is set to celebrate the 102nd birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children’s Day-2022 today in a befitting manner.On this day in 1920, Bangabandhu, the vivacious leader of the Bangalee nation, the architect of independent Bangladesh and the…

Inward remittance may affect Mahfuz Emran: Overseas migration for works have drastically fall down due to the lack of skilled manpower, high migration cost, ticket syndicate, harassment in airport by immigration police, free visa trans, economic debacle for pandemic and war in the recent months. Concern ministry is also reluctant…

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the members of Bangladesh Air Force to maintain professional skills, discipline and patriotism to accomplish the national goals.“It is impossible to achieve the goals without hard work, discipline and patriotism. I hope you will be aware of these and will build yourselves…

85,000 ton arrive in port Chattagram Bureau: Although there is a demand of 2 million tons of edible oil in the country every year, the import in the first eight and a half months of the fiscal year is more than that. Of this, about three and a half lakh…

No manpower to operate Ayub Ali: Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has proposed to purchase modern vehicles and equipment for the development of waste management. The expenditure has been estimated at Tk 298.31 crore. The cost is estimated to buy 541 new modern vehicles. However, the proposal does not mention any…

Staff Correspondent: The concluding program of ‘Mujib Borsho’ will be held todayon the premises of Bangabandhu Samadhi Soudha Complex in Tungipara, Gopalganj.Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee, in association with Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, is going to organise the daylong…