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Next manufacturing survey to focus on employment

The government is set to conduct a survey next month to assess the latest status of the country's manufacturing industry.The survey on manufacturing industry 2018 will focus on the ownership status, employment, intermediate consumption, value of fixed assets, gross output and other information about the sector.The state-run Bangladesh Bureau of...

Local tech companies urge govt to procure homegrown software

Local technology companies urged on Tuesday the government to procure home-grown software for its various activities to help the ICT sector sustain its growth.Leaders of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) also called for establishing required technological facilities and making broadband internet available at affordable prices at the...

Bodies of seven Rangamati attack victims handed over to families

The bodies of the seven victims of Monday's gun attack on a motorcade of election officials and law enforcers in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati were handed over to their families on Tuesday, reports UNB.Family members received the bodies in the afternoon after their postmortems at Khagrachhari Modern Hospital, said officer-in-charge...

Adoption of ATA Carnet to help boost trade

Being a signatory to the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC), it is very important for Bangladesh to sign the Istanbul Convention on ATA Carnet. Md. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), made the observation at...

No security lapse in Baghaichhari, claims CEC

CHATTOGRAM, Mar 19: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) K M Nurul Huda said, "The attack on the motorcade carrying the polling materials was pre-planned. Despite the reason of the attack is yet to be known, but, we feared turmoil in hilly areas recently." The CEC visited the Combined Military Hospital in...

Bhutan PM to visit Bangladesh in Apr

Both Bangladesh and Bhutan are exploring the possibility of signing a number of deals on power trade and connectivity during the visit of Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering to Bangladesh in the second week of April.The foreign secretaries of the two countries disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing the press...

Poor ICT infrastructure constrains e-Governance

The lack of experts and inadequate information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure are key barriers to implementing e-government programmes, an official survey has revealed.Other factors include poor campaign on the active usage of e-services.The findings came in the survey conducted by a project called the formation of e-Government Master Plan...

S’pore, Paris, Hong Kong world’s most expensive cities to live in

Paris has come top of a ranking of the world's most expensive cities, alongside Hong Kong and Singapore, reports BBC.It's the first time three cities have shared the top spot in the 30-year history of the annual Economist Intelligence Unit survey, which compares prices in 133 cities globally.The French capital...