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  BBS plans NPR project

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:45am on September 20, 2021

  The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics has planned a project to implement a National Population Register for the country, said its officials on Sunday at a...

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  Mental health largely ignored during Covid outbreak

  | Updated at 12:00am on September 12, 2021

  SUICIDE statistics that various organisations came up with on the occasion of World Suicide Prevention Day, observed on Friday, suggest that mental health has remained...

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  Public confidence in official statistics is at stake

  | Updated at 12:00am on September 07, 2021

  ON THE eve of International Literacy Day, the government has claimed that the literacy rate in Bangladesh has increased during the pandemic; however, educationists have...

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  BBS asked to go for retender for 3.95 lakh tabs 

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:39pm on August 25, 2021

  The government on Wednesday asked the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics to retender out the procurement of 3.95 lakh pieces of computer tablets under its population...

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  Average life expectancy in Bangladesh rises to 72.8 years

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 07:30pm on June 28, 2021

  The average life expectancy of people in the country rose further as it reached to 72.8 years. The average life expectancy of female in the...

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  Inflation drops to 5.02pc in January

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:18am on February 04, 2021

  The overall point-to-point inflation dropped to 5.02 per cent in January due mainly to the easing of both food and non-food inflation in the month,...

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  Poor national hygiene state warrants early action

  | Updated at 12:00am on January 02, 2021

  The sorry state of hygiene in different indicators that the National Hygiene Survey 2018 comes up with portrays a worrying picture. The survey, conducted by...

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  Food security concerns hit urban households

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:09pm on December 24, 2020

  Food security concerns are looming large among poor households in urban areas as 11.51 per cent of households had no food in the house while...

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  Inflation rises to 5.68pc in August

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 11:00pm on September 01, 2020

  The general point-to-point inflation rate slightly increased to 5.68 per cent in August from 5.53 per cent in July due to a rise in food...

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  GDP growth 5.2pc in FY20: BBS

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:59pm on August 11, 2020

  The country’s economy grew by 5.24 per cent in the last fiscal year 2019-2020 despite an unprecedented blow to economy in the last quarter of...