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Ctg Port yet to reap full benefit of 24/7 service
Chittagong Port users yesterday urged all stakeholders to play their due role as the recent initiative to keep the seaport functioning round-the-clock is failing to yield full benefit, the Daily Star reported.
They said some government and private organisations are not remaining open on weekends as decided in July this year when the 24/7 service was initiated to decongest the port. The comments came at a view-exchange meeting of stakeholders at the port’s training centre, the report added.
Interest on bank deposit drops 43% in 5 years
For the past five years, 65-year-old Nesar Uddin has been covering all of his daily expenses with the interest earned on his savings, Dhaka Tribune reported.
On retiring from service in 2011, he had placed his pension in a bank as a Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR), the report added.
