Bangladesh Indenting Agents' Association (BIAA) and China Council for the promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) is going to organise jointly an international seminar titled on "Relocation of Chinese Labour Intensive and High Tech Industries to Bangladesh" on June 11, 2015...
Banks have to devise their own CSR strategy in line with CSR guidelines prescribed by the Bangladesh Bank since engagement of banks in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities have been increasing steadily in depth and diversity over last few years....
In a bid to hunt culinary talents from across the country and recognise them at the national level recipes are invited from the interested participants for the TV Reality Show, "Chef of the Year, 2015". The Reality Show is being...
The Westin Dhaka catered the state banquet in honour of Narendra Damodardas Modi, the Prime Minister of Republic of India on his maiden visit to Bangladesh Sunday. The event was hosted by Abdul Hamid, the president of Bangladesh at the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-08 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, June 6: Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) will add six new vessels to its fleet at a cost of around Tk 14.391 billion (US$ 184.50 million). The vessels will be procured from China under preferential loan by the first quarter...
Former Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled has urged the government to incorporate effective and specific guidelines in the budget to reduce inequality, reports UNB. "The government has managed to reduce poverty to 23 per cent from...
Bangladesh and India issued a joint declaration on Sunday with a renewed pledge to work closely in elevating regional and sub-regional cooperation and in the UN and other multilateral organisations, including WTO, for benefit of the peoples in the region,...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-06-08 00:00:00
Pension payment from the public exchequer is set to increase by over 36 per cent with implementation of the new pay-scale for the government employees from next month. The existing pension allocation in the national budget is causing a fiscal...
Bangladesh business leaders proposed India to form a joint group in the private sector of two countries, report agencies. Newly elected FBCCI President Abdul Matlub Ahmed along with other business leaders made the request to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia said on Sunday her meeting with visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was very fruitful, reports UNB. "The meeting with Modi was very fruitful," she told reporters, when they asked her about the meeting at Sonargaon...
CHITTAGONG, June 7: Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department seized a container on suspicion that it was carrying liquefied cocaine worth more than 1.0 billion (Tk 100 crore) at the Chittagong Port early on Sunday. Customs sources said that...
FE Report | 2015-06-08 00:00:00
Bourse operators hope the incentives proposed in the new budget will attract more companies into going public on the capital market for further expansion which will accelerate industrialisation in the country. Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) officials expressed such view Sunday...
Siddique Islam | 2015-06-08 00:00:00
The central bank prepares to start disbursing loans from World Bank's US$300-million scheme approved to facilitate long-term financing, particularly in productive sectors. Bangladesh Bank's disclosure came Sunday following approval for the soft loan under Financial Sector Support Project (FSSP) by...
Syful Islam | 2015-06-08 00:00:00
Only 22 per cent works of a dredging project has been completed in the stipulated five-year period, officials said. The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), the implementing agency of the project, is now seeking extension of the tenure by...
Munima Sultana | 2015-06-08 00:00:00
The World Bank funding for a bus rapid transit (BRT) project in the city has become uncertain following the authorities' inability to sort out some problems hitting its implementation. Officials said the BRT line-3 project could not be included in...
Controversial business tycoon and DATCO Group chairman Moosa Bin Shamsher has submitted his wealth statement to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). Moosa submitted his wealth statement to ACC secretary M Maksudul Hasan Khan on Sunday through a representative, ACC public...
Ecological balance will be endangered greatly, if rivers across the country continue to be grabbed and polluted, said Water Resources Minister Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud, reports BSS. "Rivers across the country are facing a threat to dying.... Illegal grabbing and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city on Sunday morning, marking the historic...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoped on Sunday that all pending issues between Bangladesh and India would be settled, reports BSS. The issues should be settled with the same spirit that had helped solve the long-awaited Land Boundary Agreement (LBA),...
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday was conferred upon the 'Bangladesh Liberation War Honour' in recognition of his active role in support of Bangladesh Liberation War when he was a Lok Sabha member, reports UNB. Visiting Indian...
Reassuring to resolve the Teesta water sharing deal, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday all problems would gradually be resolved if the two countries work together, reports UNB. Opposition leader Begum Raushon Ershad said quoting Modi as saying...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee left Dhaka for home after witnessing the exchange of ratification documents on land boundary agreement (LBA) documents, a historic event in Bangladesh-India relations, reports UNB. She also attended the launch of two new bus...
Leaders of left-leaning political parties stressed on Sunday the need for resolving the cross-border issues, terrorism, fundamentalism, militancy, communalism and security issues, reports UNB. They said it should be solved through working together for establishing peaceful Bangladesh and peaceful India...
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