Economy

Coronavirus and oil: Why crude has been hit hard

Shawdesh Desk: The world’s biggest oil producers could be about to slash output as they grapple with the fallout of the coronavirus, reports BBC. Representatives of oil producers’ cartel Opec

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India’s budget offers tax relief amid slow economic growth

Shawdesh Desk; India’s government on Saturday offered relief to taxpayers and vowed to spend billions to double farmers’ incomes and upgrade infrastructure, health care and industry to boost the country’s

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India projects rosy economic growth next year after slump

Shawdesh Desk: An Indian laborer works on an under construction bridge in Gauhati, India. India’s government expects the economy to expand up to 6.5% in the next fiscal year, starting

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Brexit: UK sees opportunity to do more with Bangladesh

Shawdesh Desk: The United Kingdom (UK) sees a real opportunity to do more on trade, development and other areas in the longer term with Bangladesh as the UK formally leaves

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Workers criticize Amazon on climate despite risk to jobs

Shawdesh Desk: Hundreds of employees are openly criticizing Amazon’s record on climate change despite what they say is a company policy that puts their jobs at risk for speaking out.

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Bashundhara Housing allocates plots by lottery

Shawdesh DEsk: Bashundhara Housing on Saturday allocated plots of the newly developed Block Q under its Baridhara project by lottery transparently. Owners picked the position of their plots by the

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Govt to set up 16 power plants having 19,100MW capacity

Shawdesh Desk: In a major boost to power sector, the government has undertaken a scheme for setting up 16 power plants having 19,100 megawatt (MW) electricity generation capacity in the

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Bangladesh gets $ 153.13 billion remittance in decade: Imran

Shawdesh Desk: A total of 66 lakh 33 thousand 254 trained workers got employments abroad in the last one decade from 2009 to 2019 and they sent around $ 153.13

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