Confirming Bangladesh’s request for a loan from International Monetary Fund (IMF) Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that it does not mean the country’s economy is in bad shape. “But I had to make my previous statement looking into the perspec…
The artisans, mostly women, have been manufacturing earthen stoves beside the Bhairab river for a very long time. They collect alluvium from the chars that emerge in the river and use it to make stoves. Besides making stoves, they also sell their produ…
Bangladesh’s total population is now 165,158,616; of which, 81,712,824 are male, while 83,347,206 arefemale and the population of third gender is 12,629.A total of 113,063,587 of them live in rural areas and 52,009,072 livein urban areas.The Bangladesh…
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today trashed the claims of international media that Bangladesh is seeking bailout from international lenders like International Monetary Fund (IMF).”There are many for uttering such kind of words, it’s false and not …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh would be able to meet six to nine months of food import expenditures with the existing foreign currency reserves.“We have money in our hands to import food grains and others (essentials items) f…
The Energy and Mineral Resources Division has said that the country has adequate stocks of petroleum fuel.In a clarification on Wednesday, it said the country has stocks of 431,835 metric tons of diesel for 32 days’ consumption while Jet-A1 fuel for 44…
Two fishermen went missing as a boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal after being hit by a lighter vessel early Wednesday. The missing fishermen were identified as Md Harun, 40, son of Sayed Noor of Paruapara area of Chattogram’s Anwara Upazila, and Rashi…
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