With an eye mainly on China, India has amended rules imposing restrictions on public procurement from bidders of countries with which it shares land border, citing grounds of defence and national security, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Bidders from these countries will be eligible only if they are registered with the Registration Committee constituted by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) ….
The government yesterday gave yet another stimulus package worth Tk 3,000 crore for the export-oriented industries to help them provide wages and salaries to their workers for July.
This is the third stimulus package for the export-oriented industries, which are now actively running their units, since March.
Many flood-hit people are passing their days in starvation as the government’s relief allocation is insufficient, victims said.
In some places, flood victims alleged the local people’s representatives of nepotism in distributing relief, thus depriving those in actual need of aid.
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She had never spent much money or time on beauty treatments; she had had few facials, and shopping at Sephora was rare. But when Dr Lara Devgan, a plastic surgeon in New York, reopened her office last month, Aubry went in for a consultation and got treated the same day. That office visit was one of the few outings she had taken since March.
Aziz Abdul Alim, a resident of a village in the mountainous northern district of Chitral, was released last week from an emergency response centre after testing positive in early July.
“We were worried for him given his age, but he wasn’t worried at all,” Alim’s son Sohail Ahmed told Reuters on the phone from his village, close to Pakistan’s border with China and Afghanistan.
Sharmin Jahan, owner of Aparajita International, has been arrested in a case of supplying fake masks at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).
The Detective and Criminal Investigation Department (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested him from Shahbagh area of the capital around 10:15 pm on Friday.
DB Joint Commissioner Mahbub Alam confirmed the information to the media.
Earlier, BSMMU authorities filed a case against Sharmin Jahan, owner of Aparajita International, at Shahbagh Police Station for supplying substandard N95 masks.
University Proctor Dr. Mozaffar Ahmed told the media that the company had cheated by providing low quality masks. Doctors and health workers refused to use these masks.
