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Recovering illegally occupied forest land

At a meeting of the standing committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MEFCC), the Department of Forest informs that 287,452 acres of the country's total 4,646,700 acresof forest land are under illegal occupation. In a country where land-grabbing is rampant, encroachment of forests is hardly surprising....

Scoring better on hunger index  

Bangladesh has moved 13 notches up from last year's 88th...

Attaining exportability of Hilsa  

Since the ban on catching hilsa was enforced over one...

Noise over per-capita GDP

Bangladesh's per capita GDP (gross domestic product) has been on...

Holding errant foreign companies to account  

Corruption in various forms particularly in foreign trade has long...

On-line RMG platform  

Antibody no guarantee for herd immunity

Cash support for retrenched workers    

Automatic promotion for HSC examinees  

Nobel for Hepatitis C virus

Rise in essentials' prices during Covid time

Turnaround in employment situation  

As the pandemic struck Bangladesh in March, gloomy predictions were being made about its possible negative impacts on the economy and the employment situation. The situation was no doubt dicey, especially between March and July when shutdowns to combat the pandemic were in force. A countrywide online survey done by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) in May showed that the country's13 per cent people mainly in the low-income bracket had lost their jobs. In particular, rural Small and...

Matching grant under Export Readiness Fund

The launch of $10 million...

Price hike of water unjustified

At a time when the...

Surplus current account-balance utilisation

Bangladesh has so far proved...

Care homes for children and the elderly  

The government initiative to develop...

PM's emphasis on green recovery  

In her article published in...

Good omen at a difficult time

Belying predictions of some local...

Adopting food-loss reduction strategy  

Incentives for agro- and jute-processing units in EPZs  

Dealing with increased urban population

Reforming investment policies

Standardising financial reports  

BAF's 'seed ball' programme  

Standardising financial reports  

The title of a webinar, 'Financial Reporting Act...

BAF's 'seed ball' programme  

Two print media news items about the country's...

Prudent redesigning of power sector plan

Addressing growing income disparity  

Facilitating loans for returnee migrant workers  

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