4 SCAM-HIT SCBS BB raises loan disbursement ceiling
Bangladesh Bank has increased the credit ceiling for four scam-hit state-owned commercial banks for 2017 in accordance with the banks’ requirement as they claimed that a lower limit impeded them to enjoy expected profit.
Budget announcement causes price hike, says 56.5 pc people
Some 56.5 percent people of the country believe that prices of essentials witness hike after the announcement of national budget, according to a survey conducted by non-government organisation Brac and IID.
2018 will be year of people, tyrant will go: Khaleda
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday said that 2018 would be the year of people and both tyranny and the tyrant would leave the country in the year.
PARIS CLIMATE DEAL US pull-out disappoints Bangladesh
Bangladesh on Tuesday expressed its disappointment at the United States’ decision of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement.
Hundreds risk living on Ctg hills
Living dangerously on hills in different areas of the Chittagong city continues, rendering drives against it fruitless.
Pollution spreads around new tannery park
Around 5,000 cubic metre of untreated effluent from 55 tannery factories is dumped into the Dhaleswari River every day since they shifted to the Tannery Industrial Park at Savar.
LANGADU ARSON Lawmakers for actions against attackers
Independent lawmaker and PCJSS leader Ushatan Talukdar and Bangladesh Nationalist Front lawmaker Abul Kalam Azad on Monday demanded punitive action against the perpetrators of arson attack on ethnic minorities in Langadu of Rangamati.
Oishee’s death sentence commuted to life term
The High Court Division on Monday commuted death sentence of Oishee Rahman, 19, for killing her parents to life term.
ROOPPUR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT Draft agreement on spent nuclear fuel removal approved
The cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft agreement on ‘Cooperation Concerning Return of Spent Nuclear Fuel from Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant to the Russian Federation’ for signing with Russia.
RANGAMATI ARSON No measure yet for homeless ethnic minorities
Very few of the ethnic minority people, who fled arson attacks on Friday, returned to their villages on Sunday only to find no places for them to live in.
