BPDB’s loss set to rise by 67pc

The financial loss of the state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) is set to increase by Tk 18,094 crore, or 67 percent, in one year. According to BPDB's own latest estimates, the financial loss will cross Tk 48,000 crore in the 2022-23 fiscal from Tk 29,915 crore in the fiscal

China military drills are significant escalation: Blinken

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China's military exercises aimed at Taiwan, including missiles fired into Japan's exclusive economic zone, represent a "significant escalation" and that he has urged Beijing to back down. China launched the drills following a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan