Bangladesh's dollar crisis linked to $7-8b capital flight: ex-minister
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Thursday that they had to follow the World Bank for foreign currencies, while former state minister for...
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St Martins out of reach, food crisis feared
GoodS transport to and from Saint Martins island through trawlers and boats has remained suspended for nearly a week due to repeated shelling from Myanmar at the Teknaf border, leading to a...
Elections not participatory due to crisis in politics: CEC
Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Monday said that elections in the country are not being participatory due to a crisis in politics...
Understanding Iran鈥檚 鈥榦ffensive-defensive鈥� strategy
THIS spring, Iran鈥檚 unprecedented direct military tit-for-tat escalation against its regional arch-foe Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war was accompanied by a deteriorating domestic landscape marked by higher repression and a deepening economic crisis...
Dissonance of state policies
THE exploitation of migratory waves to affect opposing national economies in a global context open to economic warfare appears today as a paradigm. This makes the management of the migration issue a problem with a global dimension that requires a well-coordinated global response...
Dhaka-Ctg Highway blocked demanding end of gas crisis
Around 700 residents of Siddhirganj in Narayanganj on Saturday blocked the busy Dhaka-Chattogram highway demanding a solution to the prolonged gas crisis.
Cheated workers uncertain over money refund
Aspiring migrant workers who have failed to go to Malaysia even after depositing larger amounts of money are now grappling with uncertainty over refund of the money from the agencies...
Gas crisis cuts textile production by up to 65pc: BTMA
Production in more than 1,000 textile mills in the country has plummeted by 50-65 per cent over the past month due to a severe shortage of gas supply, according to the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association...
Uttara people face acute water crisis
Residents in several sectors in the capital鈥檚 Uttara and its adjacent areas are facing an acute water crisis.
Dollar crisis deepens economic woes in Bangladesh
The persistent dollar crisis in Bangladesh has exacerbated various economic issues, including inflation, rising business costs, an energy crisis, and mounting government foreign debt payments...
Manufacturing sector hit by high inflation, dollar crisis: MCCI
The manufacturing sector of the country has been hindered by lower consumption in both domestic and external level amid high inflation, import restrictions due to a dollar crisis and shortage of gas and electricity over the past few months, according to the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry鈥檚 economic review...
Mamunur Rashid delivers lecture on crisis in culture
Thespian Mamunur Rashid delivered a lecture on crisis in culture at the Riddhi Gallery in Mirpur recently, said a press release...
Rohingya crisis in focus, says FM on Lu鈥檚 visit
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said that US assistant secretary of state for the bureau of South and Central Asian affairs Donald Lu鈥檚 forthcoming visit would have a focus on the Rohingya crisis...
Plastics: an ocean justice crisis
AS THE fourth negotiating session on the United Nations plastics treaty comes to a close, pressing questions loom: Will world leaders finalise a robust agreement by the end of this year that effectively halts plastic pollution at its source? Despite the fortitude of countries within...
Prioritising press freedom stressed to tackle climate crises
Speakers, at a discussion on Thursday, said that priority should be given to the freedom of press and expression to face the challenges of natural disasters and climate crisis...
Authorities must address water crisis in cities, coastal areas
THE persistent water crisis and increased salinity in supply water in Chattogram amidst the ongoing heat wave show the failure of the authorities to address an issue that has affected people鈥檚 lives for...
Agri production fall feared amid heatwave聽
Rice fields began developing cracks as vast landscapes lay parched from about two weeks of intense heat conditions, with farmers battling a severe power crisis in irrigating cropland...
De-dollarization and BRICS鈥� ascendancy
IN THE aftermath of the prolonged conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the aggravating Middle East crisis, where escalating humanitarian crises compound existing tensions, the global landscape has undergone...
BB sells $11.67b to banks in 10 months
The Bangladesh Bank sold $11.67 billion from its foreign exchange reserves to banks in less than 10 months amid a severe dollar crisis faced by the country鈥檚 banks...
The crooked timber of Modi鈥檚 India
WHEN Parakala Prabhakar published his essays in April last year in a book titled The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis, one ignored it on suspicion that as husband of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman he could not but be...
New EU spending rules bring back debt discipline focus
With an energy crisis and record high inflation in the EU鈥檚 rearview mirror, Brussels believes the time has come for the bloc to focus on ensuring sound public finances...
Power crisis soars amid scorching temp
The power shortage doubled to almost 1,000MW on Sunday, compared with the day before, as electricity demand surged amid an unrelenting heatwave sweeping over most of Bangladesh...
Playing Russian roulette with Middle Eastern oil
LAST September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or 鈥榤edicane.鈥� Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn鈥檛 get hot enough to produce hurricanes...
Authorities must attend to irrigation crisis in north
THE farming of boro rice, the largest rice crop that accounts for 54 per cent of the total rice production, facing an irrigation problem in the north is concerning. Thousands of farmers in northern Rajshahi and Rangpur are reported to be facing...
Import restrictions bring聽no major let-up
Import restrictions on luxury items and other policies implemented by the government during the past two years have failed to tackle the dollar shortage and ease the economic crisis.
Europe鈥檚 identity crisis
IT IS many years now since the French, bless them, revolted as Disneyland Paris arose near the previously uninvaded village of Marne-la-Vall茅e-Chessy...
