by Rejaul Karim Byron in The Daily Star, Mar 3, 2023Bangladesh and India are in talks about doing away with the dollar as the official currency for payments between the two countries — a development that would bring down the cost of trade as well as the conversion rate losses for businesses and ordinary people. The talks took place on the sidelines of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting held in the…
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report in The Daily Star, Mar 1, 2023A total of 232 women and girls faced violence in February this year, found a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. Of them, 40 females, including 24 girls, were raped, according to the organisation’s media-monitoring report. Seven females, including three girls, were gang-raped, one was killed after rape, and two girls died by suicide after rape during this period. Attempts have also been made to rape a total…
by Anwar Hossain in Prothom Alo, 26 Feb 2023 at 11: 14hraThe ruling Awami League is feeling the urge to bring opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the next (12th) parliamentary elections. That’s why, the leaders of the ruling party have been ensuring in all formal and informal discussions with diplomats or politicians that a free and fair vote will be organised. However, the ruling party will not give BNP any space over their demand…
Reuters in Prothom Alo, Feb 221, 2023With a little over a month to go for peak shopping season during Ramadan, the head of Pakistan’s retail industry body is shuttling between meetings, pressing officials to relax orders that forced malls to shut by 8.30 p.m. to save energy. More than 40 per cent of annual retail sales occur in the 30 days of the holy month, and malls are packed between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.,…
report in Prothom Alo, Feb 20, 2023The United Nations plans to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, blaming a funding shortfall for cuts that agencies warned on Friday would deepen food insecurity and malnutrition in the world’s largest refugee settlement, reports news agencies Reuters and AFP. About 730,000 Rohingya, a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 to escape an army crackdown the UN said was carried…
report in Prothom Alo, Feb 19, 2023Bangladesh is ready to topple China as the top clothing exporter to the EU amid Beijing’s decreasing share in the ready-made garment (RMG) market, reported Nikkei Asia. Notably, in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine and other global geopolitical tensions, the supply chains are shifting and driving up orders to the densely populated South Asian nation. “A lot of work orders were shifted to Bangladesh from China because…
AFP report, February 17, 2023DHAKA: The United States will not lift sanctions on an elite Bangladesh police unit accused of extrajudicial killings until it is reformed, a top US envoy visiting the country has said. State Department Counselor Derek Chollet visited the South Asian country this week where he discussed security cooperation with government representatives in Dhaka. The diplomat is one of the most senior US officials to travel to Bangladesh since Washington sanctioned the…
report in Prothom Alo, Feb 17, 2023Kushtia: After the news of a harrowing torture on a female student of Islamic University in Kushtia by some leaders-activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders broke, the students of Deshratna Sheikh Hasina hall’s Gana Room are now leaving in fear. The hall authorities, however, do not have any data on the number of students who left hall. Abdur Razzak, an assistant registrar of the hall, told Prothom Alo on…
by Sohel Parvez in The Daily Star, Feb 14, 2023Crop protection chemical sellers in Bangladesh are facing difficulty in opening letters of credit amid banks’ lack of interest owing to the crunch of the US dollar. This raises concerns about a shortage of pesticides and other similar inputs that could affect the productivity of crops such as boro rice. The worry comes at a time when farmers are growing the boro paddy, the biggest rice…
report in Prothom Alo, Feb 11, 2023Bangladesh Nationalist Party will march at all unions across the country today, Saturday amid counter programmes of the ruling Awami League. BNP leaders said the aim of their programmes is to involve general people at the village level in its anti-government movement. Alongside BNP, different anti-government parties and alliances will also hold these programmes simultaneously. BNP central leaders said their leaders and activists at the village level are in…
by Jagaran Chakma in The Daily Star, Feb 10, 2023Rubber growers in Bangladesh were left disappointed as their success in raising the production of the key material used in automobile and other industries has failed to fetch better prices owing largely to lower demand globally. According to the Bangladesh Rubber Board (BRB) and rubber producers, 67,939 tonnes of latex were produced in the country last year, up 58 per cent from 43,000 tonnes in 2021,…