Traders blame low supply for high price; not enough catch in rivers even after 2-month ban
April 24 is a date that should not be and cannot be ever obliterated from our memory. Rana Plaza collapsed on the morning of a hot summer day, on April 24, 2013. At least 1,136 people, mostly garment workers, were killed and over 2,500 others injured in the deadliest garment factory disaster in history as the nine-storey building came crashing down in Savar.
The agriculture ministry has started issuing permits to importers to bring potatoes to control prices
BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan today said the "cold-blooded' attack on BNP rally was "slyly crafted" by the government in a bid to crush people's aspiration for the restoration of democracy in the country
The BNP yesterday alleged that the government drew up a “master plan” to attack its rally after witnessing the enormous gathering.
At least 17 journalists were injured during clashes in the capital yesterday and several of them were reportedly attacked by BNP men.
Downtown Dhaka turned into a battlefield yesterday as BNP activists and police clashed, leading to the death of a policeman and a ward-level BNP leader.
The buses were torched in Kalshi, Hemayetpur, Gazipur from 9:18pm to 9:30pm
Self-contradictory is what best describes Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s fifth budget, and the last of the Awami League-led government’s current term.
Education ministries got a chop for the next fiscal year as the proposed development allocation for them is lower than the allocation of the outgoing fiscal year.
People may not get any respite from increased healthcare cost as the share of the budget allocation for the health sector has been reduced for next fiscal compared to that of the outgoing year.
The proposed budget for 2023-24 is unrealistic and unattainable as the challenges that caused the economic growth to decelerate, foreign exchange reserves to dip and inflation to surge in the past one year still persist, said economists and think-tanks.
BNP yesterday described the national budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year as a smart one for plundering public money.
The prices of many products and services are likely to go up owing to the proposed hikes in duties and value added tax in the 2023-24 national budget.
Rich will get a shot in the arm from the tax measures in the new fiscal year. They may not have to pay any surcharge on their net wealth worth up to Tk 4 crore from the next fiscal year as per the proposed tax measures.
About six months ahead of the next general election, the government yesterday proposed the last national budget of its five-year term mainly keeping the ruling Awami League’s vision of a “Smart Bangladesh” by 2041 and the election in mind.
