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Bangladesh Railway on Sunday started selling advance tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr. Tickets are available online. And the ticket sale will continue till March 30. The authorities sale first day’s train tickets for April 3 and tickets for April 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 will be sold on March 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 respectively. Bangladesh Railway said that tickets ...

India has extended its ban on onion exports indefinitely — a surprise move that comes ahead of a general election and is set to exacerbate high prices in some overseas markets. Imposed by India — the world’s biggest exporter of the vegetable — in December, the ban was due to expire on Mar 31. Traders had anticipated it would be ...

India’s foreign exchange reserves rose for a fourth straight week to hit a record high of $642.49 billion as of March 15, central bank data showed on Friday, reports Reuters. The reserves rose by $6.4 billion in the reporting week, after rising $20 billion in the previous three weeks. The Indian economy is seen growing at 7.6% this year, one ...

Bangladesh Jewelers’ Association (Bajus) has again announced to increase the price of gold just two days after reducing it. Now the price of gold has been raised by Tk 2,916 per bhori. As a result, the price of 22-carat (11.664 grams) gold has become Tk 1,14,078 per bhori. The Bajus standing committee confirmed the matter with a press release on ...

A total of 80 branches of the country’s various commercial banks will distribute new currency notes of Taka 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 in the city from March 31 marking the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr. The new notes will be distributed every day until April 9, a Bangladesh Bank press release said in Dhaka on Wednesday. The new note ...

Bangladesh Jewellers’ Association (BAJUS) has decided to cut price of gold by Tk 1,749 per bhori as prices of pure gold have declined in the local market. The new prices will come into effect from Wednesday (March 20), the BAJUS statement said on Monday. Now, 22-carat gold will cost Tk 1,11,158 a bhori (11.664 grammes) from the existing Tk 1,12,907 ...

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will operate 550 additional long-route buses to transport passengers from the capital to various destinations during the Eid holidays. BTRC Chairman Md Tajul Islam told this at a view-exchange meeting held at the BRTC building at Motijheel in the capital on Monday. He said the decision has been taken as the Eid holiday is ...

“It’s as if I’m watching a troubled child” is how Captain Dennis Tajer describes flying a Boeing 737 Max. The head of the Allied Pilots Association, the pilots union for American Airlines, insists he would never board an aircraft if it were not safe. But he says he can no longer take the quality of the plane he’s flying for ...

Export-import between Bangladesh and India through Dinajpur’s Hili land port remained suspended on Sunday marking the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and National Children’s Day. However, movement of travelers through the land port remains normal. Harun-Ur-Rashid, president of Hili Land Port Importer-Exporter Group, said trade through the border remained suspended due to the ...

Sainsbury’s says it will not be able to fulfil the “vast majority” of online deliveries on Saturday because of “technical issues”. Customers have been contacting the supermarket on social media to report issues with their online orders. Some stores are also having issues with contactless payments and chip and pin. Sainsbury’s apologised to customers and said it was working hard ...