The pressure to repay the foreign debts is mounting on the country gradually. The repayment of foreign debts has exceeded USD 2 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal. Bangladesh had to repay a total of USD 2.03 billion from July to February, which is 43 per cent more as compared to…
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Two specialist physicians from the United States arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday evening to assist in the treatment of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Dr Hamid Rabb and Dr James PA Hamilton from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 7:15pm, said BNP Chairperson’s media wing member Shamsuddin Didar. He said…
“Witnessing all this…people who were mutilated in front of me. There was nothing I could do as a doctor” Photo: Eashfinul Haque Munim “It’s like what happens to a paper when you tear it into a thousand pieces. That’s what happened to the two coaches behind us when the freight train hit,” recounted Eashfinul Haque…
Crude oil hovered above $90 a barrel while equities were weak and the safe-haven dollar was firm on Monday as investors nervously watched for whether escalating violence in Gaza would cause the conflict to spread beyond Israel and Hamas. Israel’s shekelILS=D3 sank to a nearly eight-year low, after the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to “demolish Hamas”…
The CMSF seeks applications from intermediaries interested to avail the loan. The Capital Market Stabilisation Fund (CMSF) has decided to disburse loans of Tk2 crore to each applicant stock market intermediary, enabling them to make investments in the capital market. The loan disbursement amount was finalised at the fund’s board meeting held on 11 October,…