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July 19, 2022

2nd Div Chess: Eight teams sharing top slot

Eight teams share the top slot in the Saif Powertec 2nd Division Chess League securing full four points each after the 2nd round matches held at the conference room and chess room of National Sports Council here on Tuesday.The leading teams are: Hamid …

Bangladesh, Brazil sign visa exemption agreement

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam, MP who is on a four-day maiden official visit to Brazil signed the agreement on the exemption of visa for diplomatic and official passport holders on the 50 years of Bangladesh-Brazil diplomatic rel…

Sri Lanka’s political turmoil sows worries for recovery

A day after Sri Lanka’s president fled, Mohamed Ishad waited outside an immigration office near the capital, clutching a file of documents that he hopes will get his passport renewed so he can leave, too.With the nation in the throes of its worst econo…

Outage in Dhaka as discoms ration power

The metropolis and its adjoining areas faced power outages on Tuesday morning, with discoms resorting to rationing of electricity to avert an energy crisis looming over Bangladesh.A resident of the city’s Tejgaon area said that they experienced an hour…

Flashfloods damage crops worth Tk 127 crore in Kurigram

Crops on around 8,027 hectares of land have been damaged due to the recent floods in Kurigram district.Crops worth Tk 127 crore have been damaged, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) .According to Kurigram DAE, in nine upazilas …

BNP fears grave economic crisis ahead

“The economists are saying problems are being created in every sector. The government will now be at a loss for what to do. People are fuming and they’ll burst with anger, hastening the fall of the government,” he said.Speaking at a press conference a…

Europe broils in heat wave that fuels fires in France, Spain

Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to global warming, saying, “Climate change kills.”That toll comes on top of the hundreds of heat-related deaths reported in the Iberian peninsula, as high temperatures have gr…

Bangladesh saw 7.56 pc inflation in June, highest in 8 yrs

Bangladesh witnessed an eight-year high 7.56 per cent inflation in June, last month of FY 2021-22, the latest BBS data revealed on Tuesday.Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is a responsible state entity for maintaining inflation and the GDP statist…

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