News Desk :Two more dengue patient died in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 48.During this period, 437 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever as cases have continued to increase, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The latest deaths were reported from Chattogram division raising the death in the division to 23. The dengue death toll in Dhaka division remained unchanged at 21 and in...
Day: September 23, 2022
Staff Reporter :Country’s forex reserves are now down to USD 36.90 billion, despite the central bank’s measures of reducing imports, and currency diversification in foreign trade.The reserves was about USD 37 billion a day ago. The latest data of Bangladesh Bank says it. According to the data of Bangladesh Bank, forex reserves on Wednesday stood at USD 36.90 billion, which was USD 37.08 billion on Monday.As per the data of the central bank, the country’s reserves stood at USD 46.19...
Staff Reporter :The government has decided to raise the maximum age limit for government job by three years and three months, considering the Covid-19 fallout. The public administration ministry said it in a circular issued on Thursday.As per the circular, the increasing age limit will not be applicable for the highly competitive BCS exams held under the Public Service Commission. As per the circular, if age of a candidate turns 30 years on March 25, 2020, he or she will...
Staff Reporter :The elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Director General (DG) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun has been appointed as...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) has filed case against Unilever Bangladesh Ltd, City Group and 11 people for unusual price hiking and making artificial crisis of rice, flour, egg, Chicken meat and toiletries’. According to commission sources it was known that BCC has prosecuted against Rashid Agro Food Products, Belcon Group, City Group of Industries, Bangladesh Edible Oil Limited for rice; City Group of Industries for Flour; Paragon Poultry for Eggs, President of Egg Traders-Artdar Multipurpose Cooperative Society Amanullah, Managing...
News Desk :A youth who was injured critically during the clash between the police and the activists of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Thursday evening. The victim is Md Shaon, 21, son of Md Sohorab Ali of Murma village under Mirkadim in Munshiganj. He was a three-wheeler driver by profession.‘Shaon died at the hospital at about 8:30pm today,’ said DMCH police outpost in-charge Md Bachchu Mia on Thursday...
Businesses in Bangladesh will not be able to use the Indian rupee in conducting trade with entities abroad as Bangladesh Bank has not enlisted the currency as a means of settling letters of credit (LCs). However, entrepreneurs said if trade between Bangladesh and India takes place in the local currencies, pressure from falling US dollar reserves and associated ongoing forex market volatility would be reduced to some extent. Bangladesh, which boasted of having $48 billion in reserves in August 2021,...
Full-scale war seems to be in the horizon It seems to be interesting unfortunately to note that the pogrom of 1919 in Poland and Ukraine is being repeated in Ukraine now in the twenty-first century but we are not aware of the reason for the Pogrom in the twenty-first century. The major reason could be the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine which began in 2014 following the status of and parts of Donbas region of Ukraine was in conflict...
Dr Matiur Rahman :Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and this is due to our...