Evening Brief

Finance minister: No one whitened black money in one year

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said that no one has whitened black money in the last year. 

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Stacks of Bangladeshi taka Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Kamal: Did not formulate budget FY24 on IMF's advice

The government did not formulate the national budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year on the advice of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said. 

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Post-budget press briefing at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Friday Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Info minister: Pro-poor, pro-people budget, criticism flawed

Awami League Joint General Secretary and Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has termed the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2023-24 as pro-people and pro-poor. 

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File photo of Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud Dhaka Tribune

Kitchen market situation: Chicken prices drop, vegetables same as last week

The price of broiler chickens has dropped slightly in the capital's kitchen markets

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File photo of Kitchen Market Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Health budget ‘lacks vision'

The proposed budget for the health and family welfare sector has failed to meet the expectations of public health analysts.

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File Photo Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Pust postpones Turkey visit to buy lifts on President Shahabuddin's orders

The university authorities of Pabna Science and Technology University (Pust) have postponed the Turkey visit of a delegation to buy lifts on orders of President Mohammed Shahabuddin.

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Pabna Science and Technology University campus Collected

Barisal city polls: BNP serves notice to 19 candidates over party rule breach

The BNP has issued a show-cause notice to 19 candidates of the Barisal City Corporation election for allegedly violating the party's decision not to join the polls.   

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Barisal City Corporation Nagar Bhaban  Collected 

Awami League opens TikTok account

The ruling Awami League (AL)  has now an official account on TikTok, following their presence on Facebook and Twitter.

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Screen grab of Awami Laegue's Tiktok account

Rohingya man shot dead in Cox's Bazar camp

A Rohingya man was shot to death while another was hospitalized after sustaining gunshot wounds in a refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar in the early hours of Friday.

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File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Reuters