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Family members of frontline workers who are aged at least 18 to get the vaccine shot, says Zahid Maleque

Trading at the stock exchanges will resume tomorrow amid the ongoing 14-day countrywide lockdown that began on July 23.

Out of 1.19 crore animals prepared for the Eid-ul-Azha, 90,93,242 cattle were sacrificed across the country this year, according to the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock.

People will be able to do banking activities from 10am to 1:30pm from tomorrow after a five-day shutdown.

Bangladesh Export Import Company Limited (Beximco) and Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) signed a Trust Deed in relation to the issuance of Bangladesh’s first ever Corporate Sukuk, i.e. Beximco Green-Sukuk al-Istisna’a.

Industries Ministry has taken an initiative to preserve sacrificial animal rawhide in ‘dochala’ houses by using adequate salt for ensuring fair price of rawhide at the marginal level.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen laid emphasis on establishing ‘good connectivity’ between Central and South Asian nations through road and air connections with trade facilitation for betterment of both the regions.

The government will place arguments to India next month on why the neighbouring country should not further continue imposing anti-dumping duty on the export of Bangladeshi jute goods, officials said.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) allocated on Thursday over Tk 2.12 billion for payment of arrears of the workers of the closed jute mills of Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC).

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) today said consumers will suffer due to price spiral resulting from disruption in the supply chain if factories processing food and other essentials remain shut as part of restrictions to contain spread of Covid-19.