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Delayed harvest, crushing lead to low sugar recovery
Emran Hossain | Updated at 11:45pm on February 23, 2021
With three fourths canes crushed, public sugar mills this year are bracing for one of the worst years for sugar recovery as production has already...
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Adverts claim ability to resist coronavirus
Emran Hossain | Updated at 01:41am on February 19, 2021
Television channels in Bangladesh are filled with advertisements of products claiming to have capacity for resisting the spread of the novel coronavirus or helping fight...
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Fossil fuel pollution causes higher death despite lower use in Bangladesh
Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:10am on February 10, 2021
Bangladesh uses less fossil fuel than many countries but still has the second highest rate of mortality caused by air pollution from burning fossil fuel...
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Five die as temp dips to season’s lowest in Bangladesh
Emran Hossain with Rezaul Karim Manik in Lalmonirhat | Updated at 11:50pm on January 31, 2021
Government hospitals in northern Bangladesh battled with a record surge of cold patients on Sunday as the country’s lowest minimum temperature this winter was recorded...
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Pandemic gives food frauds a free rein in Bangladesh
Emran Hossain | Updated at 11:41pm on January 31, 2021
The activities of Bangladesh Food Safety Authority have largely been limited to deskbound tasks after the coronavirus crisis struck Bangladesh nearly a year ago in...
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Mismanagement, corruption raise Bangladesh sugar production cost
Emran Hossain | Updated at 11:06pm on January 23, 2021
High production cost has long been a thorn in the side of state-owned sugar mills due to, as experts observed, rampant mismanagement and corruption. The...
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Wrong steps ruin Bangladesh sugar industry
Emran Hossain | Updated at 11:00pm on January 23, 2021
The liberalisation of sugar import has subjected the ailing state-owned sugar mills to an uneven competition, bringing them to the brink of collapse with the...
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Gas crisis hits Bangladesh consumers
Emran Hossain | Updated at 11:08pm on January 22, 2021
An acute gas crisis has gripped the capital and its surrounding areas causing sufferings to both household and industrial consumers. With the piped gas supply...
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50pc rise in LPG price proposed to subsidise pvt import
Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:16am on January 15, 2021
The technical evaluation committee of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday proposed a 50 per cent increase in the price of the liquefied petroleum...
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Body in morgue for 22 days for row between parents, in-laws
Emran Hossain, back from Teknaf | Updated at 01:10am on January 02, 2021
The body of Lackingme Chakma has been lying in the morgue for 22 days following a row between her Buddhist parents and the family of...
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