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LafargeHolcim’s profit drops for first time since 2022’s Q1

LafargeHolcim Bangladesh’s quarterly turnover and profits dropped for the first time since the January-March quarter of 2022 mainly due to shrinking demand amid high inflationary pressure. The listed multinational cement producer’s turnover fell 3 percent year-on-year to Tk 825 crore in the January-March quarter of 2024 when the profits slipped 15 percent year-on-year to Tk…

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Finance minister infected with Covid-19

Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali joined today’s cabinet committee meeting on public purchase virtually as the minister was infected with Covid-19, Cabinet Secretary for Coordination and Reforms Mahmudul Hossain Khan told The Daily Star. The minister also virtually joined the pre-budget meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to the secretary. The finance minister…

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Taking a page from the French anti-Islam playbook, UK redefines ‘extremism’

As the genocide in Gaza continues to be streamed live to our screens, many Western governments are not only refusing to end their complicity in the slaughter, but also trying to silence and demonise the Muslim movements and organisations resisting the Israeli occupation within their countries’ borders. In January of this year, the British government proscribed Hizb…

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