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Severe cold with fog may bring risk for crops
Farhad Chowdhury : The agriculture officials are afraid that the crop damage may increase due to severe winter and dense fog. They say that several days of severe winter have destroyed many seedlings in the seed bed prepared for Boro and Irri cultivation. The attack of fungal diseases on crop…
Read More »Tax files of 50,000 legal gun owners under surveillance
Syed Nasir Hossain: The socially dominant use legal firearms for personal protection. At present, the number of legal weapons in the country is about 50,000. Among the users are more than 29,000 traders. Other professions and politicians have 20,430 legal arms.It is known that the number of licensed firearms users…
Read More »Teletalk facing network scarcity
Customers scraping Teletalk SIMs Staff Correspondent : Under a photocard of the ‘Minute Bundle’ offer recently posted on Teletalk’s verified official Facebook page, a Teletalk SIM customer named Eamon complained, “I have SIM but can’t get network because there is no tower.” So, I can’t use Teletalk SIM.Another person named…
Read More »3 lakh RMG workers in job risk for gas crisis
Farhad Chowdhury : For the past few months, the industrial and factory owners of Narayanganj have fallen into trouble due to the gas crisis. Although we used to get gas for some time during the day, since the parliamentary elections, the gas supply seems to have been completely stopped. Unable…
Read More »Most of BIWTC ferries not fit
Most of the ferries are more than 35 years old Mahfuja Mukul : People of South and West Bengal easily use Daulatdia and Paturia sea route to travel to different places including Dhaka. Thousands of vehicles and passengers pass through this waterway every day. There was a lot of pressure…
Read More »E-commerce C-Finance looted over Tk 10,000cr
Staff CorrespondentThe fraud of e-commerce-based companies does not stop. This fraud is going on under different names on digital platforms. After the latest MTFE (Metaverse Foreign Exchange) fraud of Tk 10 thousand crore, a company called C-Finance is getting a new fraud trap in the e-commerce world. This company called…
Read More »Price of construction materials skyrocketed again after election
Rod price increased Tk 35,000 in 2.5 yrs Mahfuz Emran : There is a dollar crisis in the country for a long time. It has an impact on the entire economy. The impact of the dollar crisis on commodity imports in particular has been cause for concern, increasing the cost…
Read More »Urgent reforms needed for BD economy: WB
Staff Correspondent: Abdulai Sheikh, Country Director of the World Bank, said that reforms are very important in Bangladesh’s economy. He made this comment while talking to reporters after a meeting with the new Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali at the Secretariat yesterday.This World Bank official said, we had a…
Read More »Bangladesh’s prospects dim in coming days
Foreign Policy Report Rabiul Haque : At least two world leaders are happy with the results of the elections held in Bangladesh on January 7. One is of course the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, who has been elected for the fourth time in a row, and the other…
Read More »Millers responsible for rice price hike
Minister for tougher action Staff Correspondent: The price of rice suddenly increased after the election. Although now there is no shortage of rice in the market. The price of rice is expected to decrease due to the arrival of Aman paddy in the market a month ago. But the market…
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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 …
