News Desk: The government would allow the traders who had imported rice earlier as per its directives to bring in more rice to meet its import target, according to the food ministry. A high official of the ministry told the FE that they had asked the Directorate General of Food (DGoF) to take necessary steps in this regard. The importers […]

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News Desk: THE HAGUE, Feb 20, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is still waiting for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to start the countdown to its launch across the 27-nation bloc. With Moscow and Brussels trading barbs over the length of time the Amsterdam-based regulator is taking, here is what we know so far: – What’s the process? […]

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News Desk: Cabbage exports from Bangladesh have surged nearly 6,000 per cent by volume this year over that of the past year. The country has shipped a record 6,500 tonnes in one and a half months until February 15, fetching an estimated $1.5-million in export receipts. It exported just 107 tonnes in 2020, according to the plant quarantine wing of […]

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