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Syed Shemul Parvez :In the world market, where the prices of daily commodities are decreasing day by day, the opposite is the case in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a few steps ahead of the international market even in the race of price increase. The information that has emerged in the report of the government agency Tariff Commission itself. According to the report, the price of pulse, sugar and cane has decreased by 11 to 14 percent in the last one year...

Staff Reporter :A young woman, 25, has allegedly been gang raped in the capital, and she has been rushed to the one stop crisis centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Members of Turag Thana Police took her to the one stop crisis centre of DMCH on Wednesday afternoon.Uttara Thana Inspector (investigation) Shfikul Islam said the woman was rescued with unconscious condition from a road of Uttara sector-11 in the capital. She was immediately taken to Tongi Hospital. Receiving information...

Staff Reporter :Though Bangladesh is among the top 10 fastest growing economies, it will need strong and transformative policy actions to achieve its vision of upper middle-income country by 2031. Meanwhile, the World Bank (WB) has identified three key barriers-strong trade competitiveness, financial sector and well-functioning cities are critical to sustainable growth in Bangladesh.Despite Bangladesh has made remarkable economic and development progress in the past five decades and the WB urges for strong policy reforms in three areas.The WB on...

Staff Reporter :The government should focus on direct taxes by reducing dependence on existing indirect taxes for revenue mobalisation, as the country has one of the lowest Tax-GDP ratios in the world, businesses said.The country advances towards achieving the coveted ‘developing country’ and ultimately ‘developed country’ status in the future, so it has to shift away from the current dependence on indirect taxes and instead focus on direct taxes for revenue generation, they added. They came up with the remark...

Staff Reporter :Another 506 patients were hospitalised with dengue in 24 hours till Thursday morning.Of the new patients, 367 were admitted to different hospitals in Dhaka and 139 outside it.A total of 1,874 dengue patients, including 1,427 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.This year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh rose to 55 on Wednesday with another death reported from Chattogram.Of the total deaths, 27 were reported from Dhaka division, 24 from...

Staff Reporter :Some 10,000 Bangladeshi workers will reach Malaysia in batches within two weeks, according to a spokesman for the human resources ministry.Khair Razman Mohamed Annuar, the Malaysian ministry’s Deputy Secretary-General in Charge of operations, told the Free Malaysian Times (FMT), a Malaysian newspaper, this came under a government-to-government agreement for a one-off labour intake.He said the 25 Bangladeshi recruiting agencies (BRAs) appointed for the recruitment of workers had nothing to do with the scheme, according to the FMT report.“This...

Al Mamun Harun Ur Rashid :Volatile feed market is a major challenge for a sustainable poultry sector where thousands of farmers engaged in meeting animal protein and creating employment are struggling to survive.Poultry farmers said when the feed price rises exorbitantly, it directly hits the farms and even forces them to close it. Even if farmers compromise with feed quality to reduce cost, the production level drastically falls which leads to loss, they said.Stakeholders said that government’s direct intervention and...