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Inflation eases to 7.19% in July: BBS

Shawdesh Desk: BEIJING: The Chinese military has been put on high alert and will begin “targeted military operations” in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China’s

Guterres lauds Hasina’s leadership as Bangladesh PR presents his credentials to UN

Shawdesh Desk: UN Secretary General António Guterres has termed Bangladesh as a friend of the United Nations, and lauded Bangladesh’s socio-economic developments under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

No IMF proposal received to raise power, petroleum prices: Finance Minister

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said he did not get any proposal from International Monetary Fund (IMF) over hiking the prices of petroleum and power as precondition of providing

Record number of Bangladeshi workers to go to Korea this year

Shawdesh Desk: Nearly 4000 Bangladesh workers are expected to be recruited by the South Korean Government this year through the programme called Employment Permit System (EPS). According to the Dhaka

Turkish inflation stabilises at under 80% in boost to Erdogan

Shawdesh Desk: Turkey’s annual inflation rate stabilised in July at just under 80 percent, official data showed on Wednesday, helping support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pledges that runaway prices increases

150 bhori gold, 2kg silver ornaments stolen from Kakon Jewellers in Keraniganj

Shawdesh desk: A group of unidentified robbers took away 150 bhori of gold and 2kg of silver ornaments from Kakon Jewellers in Keraniganj. Estimated value of the robbed gold is

Why Bangladesh won’t face a Sri Lanka-style crisis: Indian Researcher-Analyst John Rozario

Shawdesh Desk: There is absolutely no possibility of a Sri Lanka-like situation in Bangladesh in the near future as the economies of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are vastly different and

Bangladesh urges to make the world free from the threat of nuclear weapons

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has urged the international community to unite against the perpetual holding of nuclear weapons by a handful of states in total disregard