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Industry Desk : World food prices fell in 2023, with considerable declines for grains and oils as supply concerns eased, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.Overall, world food commodity prices fell 13.7 percent in 2023 against the previous year, Rome-based FAO said.The FAO’s cereals price index fell 15.4…

Over 1.0 m Indians working illegally in Bangladesh The Indian workers mostly deployed in different garments and textile factories mainlydealing merchandising and buyer handling touchy issues Special Correspondent: Bangladesh becomes 4th largest remittance source for India, remitting over $10 billion since 2017, said Defence Pakistan.Whereas, Bangladesh has fetched total of…

Mahfuz Emran: After the corona epidemic, the Ukraine-Russia war hit the economy. The economy turned upside down due to the dollar crisis. Remittances sent by expatriates are a sign of relief when everyone wonders what will happen in the coming days. During the pandemic, expatriates made the biggest contribution to…

Industry Desk: The world’s richest people got richer this year, according to Bloomberg. The media released their list of the top 500 billionaires on Wednesday. It shows that 77 percent of the billionaires on the list has increased their wealth in 2023. However, the remaining 23 percent saw their wealth…

Country to be out of LDC by 2026 Zarif Mahmud: Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have been under discussion with various countries for almost 10 years. But so far it has not been possible to make this agreement with any country. Meanwhile, if everything goes well, Bangladesh will be out of…

Batan Biswas: Bangladeshis have been among the top countries for irregular migration to Europe for the past few years. That is why Bangladesh often comes up in the headlines in the international media. The pictures of Bangladeshi youths traveling to Europe in the hope of a comfortable life are featured…

Industry Desk: The UN Security Council is expected on Tuesday to accede to a demand from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and launch a gradual withdrawal of peacekeepers, starting later this month.The drawdown would come despite United Nations concern about violence in the eastern part of the country.Ravaged by…

Staff Correspondent: Planning Minister MA Mannan yesterday said that Bangladesh has made some impressive progress in green development. “Bangladesh has made some impressive progress in green development. For example, our garments sector ranks among the world’s best on the number of green factories,” he said. The Planning Minister was addressing…