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Corona, Amphan: Popular jackfruit haat in Jashore takes a hit
The traditional Basundia jackfruit haat in Jashore from where thousands of jackfruits go to different districts every season now looks almost deserted for lack of buyers and the blame goes to Covid-19 pandemic and cyclone Amphan.
85pc Bangladeshi leprosy disabled people psychologically ill: Study
A recent study revealed that about 85 percent leprosy disabled people in Bangladesh have been suffering from psychological problems besides many other disease-related complications.
District Football: Where talent goes down the drain
Irony of ironies, Ripon Kumar Das of Faridpur, once a budding footballer who was selected to attend a special training program at no less a citadel of the sport than Manchester United Football Club (MUFC) just eight years ago, is today earning his keep as a sweeper - just not the kind granted the liberty of roaming the football pitch a la Franz Beckenbauer, but rather one of the most neglected and lowly occupations in the country.
Gronthomongol: For the love of books, and our debt to Nilkhet
For as long as almost anyone can remember, Nilkhet in the heart of the capital has been known as the hive of bookworms, where students, academics, publishers, booksellers and photocopy shops meshed together in an informal industry unto itself.
Bangladesh set to enter a long transmission cycle of Covid-19: Experts
Though it appears that the number of corona cases has marked a fall over last two weeks, health experts said the positive case rate is actually now higher than in the past as the transmission is gradually growing for lack of effective preventive measures.
More of a pond than a school playground
Students of Singpur Government Primary School in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia are deprived of sports and recreation facilities as the only playground of the school remains waterlogged for the better part of the school year.
COVID-19 shatters Bangladesh's dream of eradicating poverty
Experts say the COVID-19 pandemic has dashed hopes of achieving the UN’s 2030 agenda to eradicate poverty through Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
COVID-19 has hit Bangladesh’s economy hard and threatens to derail the country’s impressive achievements in poverty reduction.
Seven more city areas set to get prepaid gas metres
Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd is going to install some 120,000 more prepaid gas metres in the city with the unspent fund of JICA, a Japanese donor agency.
According to official sources, a revised development project profile (RDPP) was sent by the Titas Gas to the Planning Commission through Energy and Mineral Resources Division.
“Once we receive the approval to the RDPP from the executive committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec), we’ll proceed to install the metres in seven more areas in Dhaka city under an existing project,” said Faizur Rahman, project director of the prepaid metering project of the Titas Gas.
Under an existing project, he said, 200,000 prepaid gas metres have so far been installed in 26 areas of the city.
e-Payment of VAT set to be introduced Thursday
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to introduce e-Payment system for Value Added Tax (VAT) from July 16, aiming to reduce the hassles in payment by VAT payers.
DPDC faces delay in project implementation as Chinese engineers yet to return to works
Although six months have elapsed after coronavirus struck in China, still Chinese engineers and workers could not return to Bangladesh from their homeland causing excessive delay in a top priority project of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC).