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Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) Dr Md Shahjahan Kabir has stressed on consumption of bio-fortified zinc rice to free children, women and common people from malnutrition-related complicacies.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has issued a directive saying that perpetual bonds which will be issued by the banks must be listed on the bourses through the direct listing method in order to increase liquidity in the market.

Bangladesh, which outpaced India in many indices of economic or human development, has surpassed its giant neighbour on per capita income.

Year-on-year import of rice increased 31.59 times in the first nine months of the current fiscal year 2020-2021 with a view to strengthening the stock at government warehouses and containing the soaring price of the staple food on the retail market.

The World Bank has approved USD 600 million for two projects in Bangladesh to help over 1.75 million poor and vulnerable population against future shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic.

As the Bangladesh Bank rolled out an expansionary monetary policy for FY21, flooding the market with liquidity, banks had less demand for savers’ funds

A few factories have already opened in the last three days after Eid

The apex apparel trade body – BGMEA – has moved afresh to collect information related to cancelled, withheld or unpaid work orders to determine the current state of due payment along with shipped or manufactured merchandise goods, sources said.

The inflow of remittance into Bangladesh grew by 18.4 per cent to US$21.7 billion in 2020, defying the gloomy projections and inspite of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic globally.

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said that the scopes to legalise undisclosed money would continue in the next fiscal year, 2021-2022.