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No pressure from BB to lower interest rates: ABB chief
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) - Chairman of the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) Syed Mahbubur Rahman has claimed that there is no pressure from the central bank to lower the interest rates in the banking sector to in between 6 and 9 percent.
DoE fines 8 factories Tk 15.66 lakh
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) – The Department of Environment (DoE) on Sunday slapped Tk 15.66 lakh as fine on eight business entities in five districts for polluting the environment.
Call for immediate formulation of right to food law
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) - Speakers at dialogue on Sunday urged the government to formulate a law immediately to ensure people’s right to food, saying such a law is essential for building a poverty-free society.
Child-lifting rumours: another killed, 12 others injured in mob attacks
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) – Despite the warning by the police administration not to take the law into own hands, angry mobs continued to attack suspected child-lifters in different districts, killing another man and injuring 12 others.
Another construction worker dies at work
Dhaka, July 1 (UNB)- A juvenile construction worker died at an under-construction girls hostel in the city’s Palashi on Sunday.
Irregularities in fisheries, livestock sectors must be eliminated: President
Dhaka, Jul 21 (UNB) - President Abdul Hamid on Sunday said irregularities in fisheries and livestock sectors must be strictly prevented to continue the trend of development of these sectors.
Every destitute to get govt assistance: Nuruzzaman
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) – Every destitute in the country will be brought under the government assistance through the implementation of social safety net programmes, said State Minister for Social Welfare Ministry Nuruzzaman Ahmed on Sunday.
14 members of ‘teen-gang’ held in city
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB)- Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested 14 members of a teenagers gang named ‘First Hitter Boss’ or “FHB” from the city’s Uttara on Saturday night.
DIG Mizan shown arrested in bribery case
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) - Suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman was shown arrested in a case over bribing an official of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Sheikh Abdul Hanif passes away
Dhaka, July 21 (UNB) –Sheikh Abdul Hanif, editor of Weekly Bartaman Songlap, passed away in the city on Saturday.