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  • Tk 110,700 cr spent for LNG import in 4 yrs

    Mahfuja Mukul: Most of the country’s gas supply comes from local extraction. Although most of the money spent on this is going to LNG sector. Since the beginning of LNG import in the country in 2018, in the last four financial years, the total expenditure of the energy department on…

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  • Khaleda Zia now taken back to cabin from CCU

    Staff Correspondent: BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, who is now undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka, was shifted to the cabin again from the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) yesterday morning.“Khaleda Zia was taken back to the cabin from CCU around 11 am,” AZM Zahid Hossain, medical board member of…

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  • Remain alert as none can play fouls with voting rights: PM

    Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister and Leader of the House on Friday urged the countrymen to remain alert as none can play foul with the voting rights of the people.“Stay alert so that none can play ducks and drakes with the voting franchise of the people,” she told the Parliament while…

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  • Flooding death toll soars to 11,300 in Libya

    Industry Desk: The death toll in Libya’s coastal city of Derna has soared to 11,300 as search efforts continue following a massive flood fed by the breaching of two dams in heavy rains, the Libyan Red Crescent said Thursday.Marie el-Drese, the aid group’s secretary-general, told The Associated Press by phone…

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  • Bangladesh sends humanitarian aid to Libya

    Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh has sent emergency relief goods as humanitarian assistance to flood victims in Libya. A C-130J aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force left Dhaka for Libya at 8pm on Thursday with necessary relief materials and medicines to help the people affected by cyclone Daniel and floods, the Inter-Services Public…

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  • Number of billionaires increasing despite crisis

    Mahfuja Mukul: Bangladesh is facing multi-faceted macroeconomic crisis including unbridled inflation, dollar crisis, declining reserves, decline in remittances. Government and common people are losing their breath while carrying out the necessary expenditure. Even in such a situation, the wealth of a class of people is getting more and more inflated.…

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  • Top exporters in great depression

    Entrepreneurs unable to pay LC debts Mahfuz Emran: Large exporters have been hit hard by the ban on the transfer of export earnings dollars from one bank to another bank to repay the debt of the letter of credit or LC. Inability to transfer dollars from one bank to another…

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  • High-risk nuclear fuel shouldn’t run in capital

    –Contractor won’t take any responsibility-Finance Dept gives Tk 4346 cr guarantee-No local insurer agrees to guarantee risk Mahfuz Emran: The nuclear fuel for the Rooppur Power Plant is importing without any insurance coverage, which is scheduled to arrive in October. The highly risky nuclear fuel will carry by road from…

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  • Mongla Port dev project to be implemented in Chinese loan

    Tk 3,782.36 cr to be borrowed from China Staff Correspondent: A project has been approved in the ECNEC meeting to install modern facilities in Mongla port. For this, a new project titled ‘Expansion and Development of Mongla Port Facilities’ is being undertaken. The cost of its implementation has been estimated…

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  • Akhaura-Agartala Raillink ready for opening

    B’baria Correspondent: The dual gauge railway has been designed to connect the northeastern states of India with Bangladesh and to reduce the distance between Kolkata and Agartala. Akhaura-Agartala Dual Gauge Rail Link Construction (Bangladesh Part) project was completed a few months back. Already, the inspection car has been tested several…

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