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Despite recent easing, food prices remain the main inflation driver

Staff Correspondent: Despite a modest decline in overall inflation, high food prices remain the primary driver of cost-of-living pressures in the country, contributing 42.71% to total inflation in March 2025,

No trucks, covered vans on highways during Eid-ul-Azha

Staff Correspondent: The movement of trucks, lorries and covered vans on highways will be banned for six days, three days before and after Eid-ul-Azha, said adviser Fauzul Kabir Khan. Only

Shahzadpur farmers demand permanent solution to protect crops from floods

WDB pocketing money by constructing temporary embankment year on year in name of protecting farmers’ crops Staff Reporter: A two-kilometre stretch of the flood protection embankment near Rautara Sluice Gate

18 engineers dismissed from Rooppur nuclear project amid unrest

Staff Correspondent: The authorities of the Nuclear Power Plant Company Bangladesh Limited (NPCBL) have dismissed 18 engineers, including the deputy chief superintendent, from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project following

CA Prof Yunus seeks quick, coordinated actions for LDC graduation

TDS Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday called for urgent and coordinated action from all relevant agencies to ensure Bangladesh’s smooth and timely graduation from Least Developed Country

FY 2025-26: Budget to shrink amid fiscal strain

TDS Desk: The graph is based on actual spending data of FY23 as statistics on the latest implementation are unavailable. Some 85% of the proposed outlay in FY23 was implemented.