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MPA chairman inaugurates tree plantation campaign 2025

Chairman of the Mongla Port Authority Rear Admiral Shaheen Rahman has inaugurated the Mongla Port Tree Plantation Campaign 2025 by planting a Delonix Regia sapling on the MPA headquarters premises in Bagerhat...

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BADC renews fertiliser import agreement with Morocco

Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture renewed the fertiliser import agreement with the OCP Nutri Groups in Casablanca, Morocco on Wednesday...

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National managers should break inertia to make roads safe

THE road transport system continues to be plagued with an entrenched culture of lawlessness, weak regulation and consequent accidents. The latest Road Safety Foundation report says that 696 died and 1,867 became injured in 689 traffic accidents in June alone. This comes down to an average of 23 death a day. This also marks a 22.55 per cent increase in fatalities from...

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Govt to make record $2.02b ACU payment

Bangladesh is set to make its highest Asian Clearing Union (ACU) import payment in three years, with around $2.02 billion due for imports made during May and June...

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Diogo Jota: 'exceptional player, exceptional boy'

Diogo Jota was quickly hailed by the Liverpool support as ‘better than (Luis) Figo’ and the shocking death of the Portuguese international on Thursday has left the English champions in mourning.

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'We will all miss you': Cristiano on Jota's death

Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo paid tribute to his international team-mate Diogo Jota, who was killed in a car crash on Thursday, saying ‘we will all miss you.’

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Sylhet stone traders, workers announce strike from July 5

Sylhet District Stone Traders and Workers Unity Council on Wednesday threatened to go for a indefinite transport strike from Saturday if their five-point demand, including opening stone quarries for extracting stones in manual process and withdrawal of the deputy commissioner, were not met by Friday...

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Four foreign ships docked at Mongla port

Mongla Port saw the simultaneous docking of four foreign commercial ships on Tuesday night, the first day of the 2025-26 fiscal year, carrying huge imported goods...

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Bangladesh's export earnings stand at $48.28b in FY25

Bangladesh’s merchandise exports recorded an 8.58 per cent growth year-on-year in the financial year 2024-25, reaching $48.28 billion, according to the latest data released by the Export Promotion Bureau...

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Indian exporters anxious, but hopeful

Indian exporters are anxiously eyeing the possible reintroduction of Donald Trump’s punishing tariffs next week, though many hold out hope for a last-minute reprieve...

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Export earnings stand at $48.28b in FY25

Bangladesh’s merchandise exports recorded an 8.58 per cent growth year-on-year in the financial year 2024-25, reaching $48.28 billion, according to the latest data released by the Export Promotion Bureau.

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Ctg port handles record 32.96 lakh containers in FY25

Chattogram Port, the country’s prime seaport, handled a record 32,96,067 twenty-foot equivalent unit containers in the just concluded 2024-25 financial year, posting a growth of 4 per cent from that of 31,68,690 TEUs in FY24. It set a new record in container handling, said the official data...

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Rockets fired at Iraq airport, wound two

Two rockets struck the military section of Kirkuk airport in northern Iraq late on Monday, slightly wounding two security personnel, a senior security official said...

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Airport police not informed about bullets in adviser Asif’s bag

The Dhaka airport police has not been informed yet about the detection of a magazine containing bullets in a bag of LGRD and cooperatives adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while he was travelling to Morocco Sunday morning...

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Apparel exports to US rise to $7.3b in a decade

Bangladesh’s apparel export to the USA market increased to $ 7.34 billion from $ 5.4 billion in a decade, according to the US Government Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA)...

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BGMEA team meets BIDA-BEZA chief

A high-level delegation from the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association on Monday met with Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, executive chairman of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority and the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority at the BIDA Office in the city in an effort to promote sustainable development and increase...

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Benapole port resumes operations as NBR shutdown ends

Export-import operations and cargo handling at the country’s largest land port, Benapole Land Port, resumed in full swing from Monday morning after the NBR Reform Unity Council withdrew its shutdown programme.

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Effective public transport system a must to end road chaos

The chaos that marks the road regime appears to have only worsened, with the public transport system, especially in Dhaka, further descending into disarray. The interim government, despite its efforts to address several pressing issues, seems to have paid inadequate attention to the growing anarchy on the road. Dhaka roads have, meanwhile, become increasingly...

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Alternative transport on rise as public transport in chaos

The public transport system, particularly in Dhaka city, has descended into greater turmoil, as the interim government could establish little order in the virtually lawless sector it inherited from the autocratic Awami League regime. 

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India accused of illegal deportations targeting Muslims

India has deported without trial to Bangladesh hundreds of people, officials from both sides said, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling.