This also affected the wholesale markets of Dhaka as the price there increased by 50 to 100 taka per bag (50 kg) on Wednesday. Each bag is now selling at 6,600 to 6,700 taka, with relatively no impact seen on retail prices yet. Market insiders said that even though there was a fire in the…
Additionally, VAT on import of refined and unrefined soybean and palm oil has been fixed at 10 percent instead of the existing 15 percent. This will remain in force till April 15. Meanwhile, before Ramadan, the import duty on dates has been reduced by 10 percent. The current duty is 25 percent which will remain…
Projects to install ETPs in three other closed sugar mills were suspended only after procurement of equipment and partial completion of construction work. These three mills are Pabna Sugar Mills Limited, Shyampur Sugar Mills Limited and Kushtia Sugar Mills in Rangpur. Of these three, the Pabna Sugar Mills project was canceled after 40 per cent…
Yin et al. analyzed epidemiological data on 28,303 adult women and men collected between 2007 and 2018 within the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Participants self-reported if they had a history of kidney stones. Each participant’s daily intake of added sugars was estimated from their recall of their most recent food and…
Importers bring in raw sugar and refine it within the country. Though the import cost can be verified, whatever they say about the mill cost has to be accepted without debate in that matter. To keep the Chinese market stable, the Commerce Secretary held a meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday. Bangladesh Bank, National Board…
Bangladesh Trade and Tariffs Commission has sent a proposal to the Ministry of Commerce to determine the new price of sugar in the market. The authorities have proposed to increase the price of loose sugar from Tk 16 to Tk 120 per kg while that of packaged sugar from Tk 16 to Tk 125. Meanwhile,…
The supply of sugar, wheat, pulses and gram is dependent on imports and prices of these commodities are rising in the global markets. The rising dollar value also increases the import cost as the US dollar had increased from Rs 86 per dollar to Rs 105 per dollar before last Ramzan. Traders claimed that the…
At that time, the price of sugar was Rs 110-120 per kg according to the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, but after the NBR announcement, the price increased by Rs 5 per kg to Rs 115-120 per kg. Minister Tipu Munshi told reporters, “It would be possible to reduce the price of sugar by 4.5 taka…
“Most of the balloons near our waters were used for meteorological purposes,” the official, Major General Huang Wen-chi, told a regular briefing in Taipei, adding that the weather balloons posed no serious security threat. He said the military would destroy any balloons coming into Taiwan’s territory that presented a “high security threat” but that no…
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sought to reassure Americans on Monday about the risks posed by unidentified objects. “I want to assure the Americans that these items do not present a military threat to anyone on the ground,” Austin said, speaking to reporters after landing in Brussels for a NATO gathering. “However, they do present…
The Australian government will investigate surveillance technology used in Defense Department offices, Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Thursday after Chinese-made cameras there posed a security risk. In November Britain asked its government departments to stop installing Chinese-linked surveillance cameras in sensitive buildings, citing security risks. Some US states have banned vendors and products from…
When China’s suspected surveillance balloon first passed over US airspace north of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on January 28, US officials believed there was a good chance it was following a northern trajectory over sparsely populated areas. But will keep traveling. But two days later the balloon did something unexpected: It slowed down, almost hovering over…
A US Air Force fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, a week after it entered US airspace for the first time and launched a dramatic – and public – spying saga that has rocked China-US relations. spoiled the VanHerck did not rule out that the…
“I think part of it is the president’s reluctance to take any action that would be seen as provocative or confrontational toward Chinese communists,” said Republican Tom Cotton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Former President Donald Trump and his former director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, denied Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s assessment…