Tackle the plastic tide with proper waste management
Polythene bags are openly used at the kitchen markets in Dhaka, despite being banned since 2002. File Photo: Star Almost everything in our daily lives involves plastic in some way. … Read More
Author: Shafi Sameen
সরকার হটাতে ইস্পাতকঠিন গণঐক্য সৃষ্টির আহ্বান খন্দকার মোশাররফের
খন্দকার মোশাররফ হোসেন। ফাইল ফটো সরকার হটানোর আন্দোলনে ‘ইস্পাতকঠিন গণঐক্য’ সৃষ্টি করতে বিএনপিকেই দায়িত্ব নিতে হবে উল্লেখ করে এজন্য দলের নেতাকর্মীদের প্রস্তুতি নেওয়ার আহ্বান জানিয়েছেন বিএনপির স্থায়ী কমিটির সদস্য খন্দকার মোশাররফ … Read More
নেপালে কেন বারবার উড়োজাহাজ দুর্ঘটনা
নেপালে আবারও বড় ধরনের উড়োজাহাজ দুর্ঘটনা ঘটেছে, প্রাণ হারিয়েছেন ৭২ আরোহীর সবাই। দেশটিতে গত এক দশকে প্রতি বছর গড়ে প্রায় একটি ফ্লাইট বির্পযয়ের ঘটনা ঘটেছে। এই সংখ্যা যে কোনো দেশের … Read More
Higher govt borrowing may crowd out private sector: DCCI
The central bank’s target to raise the public sector credit growth in the January-June half of the ongoing fiscal year may crowd out the private sector, said the Dhaka Chamber … Read More
Move towards market-based exchange rate by FY23-end: Bangladesh Bank
File photo The central bank today said it is taking necessary measures to gradually move towards a market-based, flexible and unified exchange rate regime by the end of the ongoing … Read More
Banks can now fix credit cards’ interest rates
Banks can now fix interest rate of their credit cards, Bangladesh Bank (BB) said today after allowing the lenders to charge up to 12 per cent interest on consumer credit. … Read More
Credit growth target upped for January-June
The Bangladesh Bank today raised its domestic credit growth target by 30 basis points to 18.5 per cent for the second half of 2022-23 in order to allow higher government … Read More
Winter is here, but kitchen markets still on fire
Photo: Collected Although vegetable prices usually cool off in winter, this time the situation is different as prices of almost all popular winter vegetables are higher than the previous week … Read More
80% of road accident victims are working-class people
According to the Road Safety Foundation, 80 percent of the thousands of people killed in road accidents in the country each year are working-class people. Many of those who are … Read More
Metro rail to stop at Pallabi station from Jan 25
Star file photo Pallabi station of Dhaka Metro Rail will be operational from January 25. It will be the third metro rail station after Diabari and Agargaon to be open … Read More