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Day: July 1, 2024
NN Online Report: China has emerged as a major source of funding for Bangladesh’s infrastructure projects, becoming the country’s fourth-largest lender. Following President Xi Jinping’s 2016 visit, during which he pledged nearly $20 billion in loan assistance, Chinese loans have surged, exceeding $1 billion annually in recent years. While these loans offer competitive interest rates between 2 per cent and 2.15 per cent, experts express concerns over their shorter repayment periods of 10-15 years compared to the 30-40 years offered...
DU Correspondant : Public university teachers across the country have announced their decision to cease all services starting from Monday...
Business Report : There has been a notable improvement in the safety conditions within the shipbreaking industry, with a significant reduction in workplace accidents and worker fatalities, according to a report published by the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) on Sunday. From 2015 to June 2024, a total of 124 workers have been killed, averaging 13.55 deaths per year until 2023. This year, only one worker fatality has been reported up to June, indicating a substantial decrease, said BILS...
Business Report : Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell on Sunday, snapping a three-day gaining streak. The DSEX, the benchmark index of the premier bourse in Bangladesh, slipped 27.01 points, or 0.50 percent, to close the day at 5,328.40. Similarly, the DSES, the index that represents the Shariah-based companies, slid 3.51 points, or 0.30 percent, to 1,180.01, while the DS30, the index that consists of the best blue-chip firms, shed 12.93 points, or 0.67 percent, to 1,909.64. Turnover,...
UNB : The opposition Jatiya Party and independent MPs on Sunday raised allegations of widespread corruption in the education system in parliament. They said that there are various irregularities, corruption and discrimination in the education system. “The level of corruption in education sector cannot be expressed in words. Nothing happens without money. For joining the MPO, you have to pay from table to table,” they said. They made the allegations while speaking at the cut motion proposals against the demand...
Sports Reporter : The ICC T20 World Cup came to an end on Saturday last between the final of India...
Court Correspondent : A Dhaka court yesterday extended till August 4 the deadline for submission of the probe report in the case filed over murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012. This is the 111th extension of the deadline for the probe report submission. Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubul Haque passed the order as Investigation Officer Khondoker Md Shafiqul Alam, also an Additional Superintendent of Police of RAB failed to submit the report...
Business Report : Telecom operators in Bangladesh will be forced to compensate for the call drops customers experience while using mobile phones, State Minister for Telecom and ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak said on Sunday. Palak made this statement at a meeting organised by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to discuss the service quality of mobile operators, held at the BTRC’s office in the capital’s Agargaon. Palak also issued a warning, saying that stricter measures would be implemented to ensure...
Staff Reporter : Members of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-8) have arrested eight members of a robbery gang, including the mastermind Abdul Hakim. The arrests were made while the gang was preparing for a robbery and were found in possession of a large quantity of indigenous weapons, toy pistols, and other robbery equipment. Commander Arafat Islam of RAB’s Legal and Media Wing provided this information at a press conference on Sunday afternoon. According to RAB sources, RAB-8 members...
Staff Reporter : The main opposition party, BNP, has labeled the 10 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) signed with India as a new version of slavery. “The 10 MoUs signed with India during the current illegal government’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi are just a new version of slavery,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office on Sunday. BNP Standing Committee members Mirza Abbas, Amir Khosru Mahmud...