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On Tuesday, a human chain of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) engineers was
formed at Pani Bhaban, 72 Green Road, Dhaka demanding fair trial for the terrorist attack on
Md. Abu Raihan, an executive engineer of Natore.
Photo : Courtesy
TCB sells products to 3.33cr families
during COVID-19 period
DHAKA : The state-run Trading
Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has
sold its various products weighing
2,33,794 metric tons to some 3,33,23,006
families during the COVID-19 period
from March 2020 to May this year.
The TCB products which were sold at
an affordable price include soybean oil,
sugar, onion, chickpeas, potatoes and
dates. Some 13.33 crore people were
benefitted from these products sold by
TCB during this pandemic period, said a
press release of the Ministry of
Commerce. The release also said that the
price of all essential items except edible
oil was stable over the last one year
especially during the months of
Ramadan.
The Ministry of Commerce has been
continuing monitoring of production of
local products, international markets,
import and local markets round the clock
to keep the market price of essential
items stable. As a result of this, the
supply of essential items was good as well
as the market was stable during the
COVID-19 period including the past two
months of Ramadan. The price of edible
oil witnessed uptrend from June last year
due to the price hike in international
market. The Ministry of Commerce said
since Bangladesh mainly depends on
import for availing edible oil, it's market
price mainly depends on the fluctuation
of price in international market.
More than 95 percent of country's
overall edible oil demand is met from
abroad through import for which there is
often an impact in the local market when
price of edible oil increases in
international market.
But, the price of edible oil has not
increased to such extent in local market
as it has increased in international
market.
Rohingya youth killed in
Chattogram elephant attack
CHATTOGRAM : A Rohingya youth was killed in an elephant attack in Satkania upazila of
Chattogram on Tuesday, reports UNB.
The deceased was identified as Syadul Islam, 20, son of Abdus Salam of Kutupalong Rohingya
camp in Cox's Bazar. Local people recovered his body from Suipura garden of Ward-9 at Charati
union in the morning and informed police.
Officer-in-Charge of Satkania police station Md. Anwar Hossain said Syadul was working as a
labourrer in the garden. Charati UP chairman Dr. Rejaul Karim said the Rohingya youth went to
cut trees as a labourer in the garden owned by Mahmudul Haque Babul.
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PM for building
modern, environment
friendly TSC at DU
DHAKA : Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina yesterday
asked the authorities
concerned to take necessary
measures to build the
Teacher-Student
Centre
(TSC) of Dhaka University in
a modern and environment
friendly manner.
The Prime Minister gave
the instruction after
witnessing a power point
presentation on the
architectural design of the
TSC at her official
Ganabhaban residence in the
capital, PM's Assistant Press
Secretary MM Emrul Kayas
told the BSS.
Amir Hamza
remanded in JS
attack plotting case
DHAKA : A Dhaka court
yesterday placed extremist
orator Amir Hamza on a fiveday
remand in a case lodged
over plotting to carry out an
attack on Jatiya Sangsad (JS)
Bhaban.
Dhaka Metropolitan
Magistrate Atikul Islam passed
the order as police produced the
accused before the court and
pleaded to place him on 10-day
remand in the case.
Dhaka Metropolitan
Police's Counter Terrorism
and Transnational Crime
(CTTC) unit arrested Hamza
from his village home in
Dabirabhita under Patikabari
union under Kustia Sadar
upazila on May 24.
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