Morning Brief

Dhaka optimistic about upcoming JRC meeting after 12-year hiatus

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has said that Dhaka is optimistic about the outcome of the upcoming Joint River Commission meeting with Delhi after 12 years. 

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Qatar to take more workers from Bangladesh

Qatar is going to take more workers from Bangladesh in the field of nursing, hospitality, construction, service, and IT sectors.

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File photo of Bangladeshi migrant workers holding passports Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Uttara crane accident: 10 sued for negligent homicide

A Dhaka court has accepted a case filed against 10 people for negligent homicide over the deaths of five people after a girder of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project fell on their car in Dhaka's Uttara area on August 15.

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12 banks earned 1,427C by overcharging for dollars

Although six banks have already been punished for making unusual profits from forex transactions, several other banks out of the purview of Bangladesh Bank have been making crores by overcharging when selling dollars. 

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Bangladesh logs record single-day dengue hospitalizations for 2022

Bangladesh recorded 135 dengue hospitalizations in 24 hours to Sunday morning, which is the highest single-day count for this year.

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File photo of dengue patients at a hospital in Dhaka Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Tea workers block road, demand at least Tk200

Rejecting the Tk25 hike in daily wages, several hundred workers of various tea gardens blocked Airport Road in Sylhet on Sunday and refused to join work if the government did not raise it to Tk200.

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Photo of a tea garden worker speaking during protest in Sylhet on Sunday, August 21, 2022 Dhaka Tribune