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With the raging pandemic keeping many away from crowded cattle markets, the online sale of sacrificial animals has gained momentum across the country ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. The digital platforms have reported a sale of nearly three lakh cattle until Saturday, three days ahead of the festival, surpassing last year’s sale of 87,000 animals. Some 289,819 animals have already been sold ...

Alesha Mart, an e-commerce platform, has been doing business following all the existing rules and regulations of the country, said Monzur Alam Sikder, chairman of Alesha Holdings Limited, the parent company of Alesha Mart. “We have been delivering products to the doorsteps of customers in time from the very beginning. The platform has so far delivered good of 3,50,000 orders. ...

The US has issued a warning to firms over the risks of doing business in Hong Kong after China imposed a new national security law there last year. A new business advisory tells multinational firms that they are subject to the laws and that their people could be arrested under them. Other risks may include having to surrender data to ...

Country’s leading mobile financial service provider bKash on Saturday announced suspension of transactions through its channel to 10 e-commerce platforms. The platforms are Evaly, Alesha Mart, Dhamaka Shopping, E-orange, Sirajganj Shop, Aladiner Prodip, Qcoom, Boom Boom, Adyan Mart and Needs, according to a notice published on the bKash website. The notice reads that the payment gateway service of bKash had ...

On the eve of the holy Eid-ul Azha, the trading of sacrificial animals began in the city’s makeshift cattle markets today and it will continue till July 21 maintaining the corona health guidelines. A total of 18 cattle markets — eight makeshift including Gabtoli cattle market in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) area and another 10 makeshift including Sarulia ...

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said that the online sales of sacrificial animals could touch 7 lakh this year, with more and more people preferring the virtual way of buying amid Covid-19. “I think the sales of animals could touch 5-7 lakh this year. Last year, the figure was about 1 lakh,” he said at a webinar on the ‘Impact ...

Industries Ministry has taken an initiative to preserve sacrificial animal rawhide in ‘dochala’ houses by using adequate salt for ensuring fair price of rawhide at the marginal level. To this end, the ministry has already provided necessary guidelines for the implementation of this initiative through the district administration. Talking to journalists, Industries Secretary Zakia Sultana said in this process, the ...

From next week, Islamic Relief UK and 18 partners – including FareShare – will begin distributing essential food packs to vulnerable communities throughout the UK. The country-wide distribution will not only mark the final weeks of Dhul-Hijjah, the last month in the Islamic calendar but will also happen following the Islamic festival of Eid-al-Adha (otherwise known as The Festival of ...

India’s central bank has barred Mastercard indefinitely from issuing new debit or credit cards to domestic customers. The Reserve Bank of India has accused the company of violating data storage laws, BBC reported. The bank said Mastercard had not complied with rules requiring foreign card networks to store data on Indian payments exclusively in India. There has been no response ...

In view of increasing demand, national flag carrier Biman is going to start operating a flight on the Syedpur-Cox’s Bazar-Syedpur route. It will look to connect the districts of North Bengal with the tourism city of Cox’s Bazar, boosting the tourism industry as well as trade between the regions, said a media release Wednesday. Biman Bangladesh Airlines would soon announce ...