Shah Alam Nur | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
Export-import trade through land ports has virtually halted for over a week now as long-haul road transport remained paralyzed due to the ongoing countrywide blockade, leaving thousands of loaded lorries stranded on both sides of the Bangladesh-India border, according to...
FE Report | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
The country's poultry sector braces for fresh crisis as the nationwide indefinite blockade has affected transport of feed to the farms, an industry leader said. "The shortage of poultry feed will create a big problem due to the supply disruption...
Sonia H Moni | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
Apparel accessories and package makers failed to meet the export target of the first half of current financial year, hit by slower growth in the shipment of readymade garments, industry leaders said. Bangladesh brought in $6.06 billion from exports of...
Tripura's first 'border haat' - the third such market along India's frontier with Bangladesh - was inaugurated on Tuesday to boost trade of local produce of both the nations. A report of the IANS on Tuesday said that Union Commerce...
The government extracts 1.0 million tonnes of coal annually and per day 3,500-4,000 tonnes on an average from Barapukuria coal mine. "There is no crisis of coal at this moment as the government extracts 3,500-4,000 tonnes of coal per day...
Serajul Haque acting FBCCI president Director of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and former president of Lalmonirhat Chamber of Commerce and Industry Md Serajul Haque will perform as acting president of the country's apex trade...
Shamsul Huda | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) will, for the first time, appoint a private company in Mongla Port zone by February to develop lands for attracting private investments, an official said. Having owned 205 acres of land in Mongla Port, the...
KHULNA, Jan 13 (BSS): The continuous blockade of road, railway and waterway enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance has hit farmers, exporters, domestic businesses and brought woes to transport workers in the city. A large number of farmers and vendors in...
The international tender for the 1320-MW Rampal Power Plant is expected to be floated in the last week of the current month, reports UNB. The officials at both Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company (Pvt) Limited (BIFPCL) and its German-based technical and...
BEIJING, Jan 13 (AFP): China's trade surplus soared by almost half last year to a record $382 billion, the government announced Tuesday, but the world's second-largest economy again missed its trade growth target due to weakness overseas. Exports increased 6.1...
TOKYO, Jan 13 (AFP): Japan posted a current account surplus for the fifth consecutive month in November as a weaker yen helped boost repatriated returns on foreign investment, official data showed Tuesday. Japan logged a surplus of 433.0 billion yen...
NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) : Citigroup Inc has been quietly scaling back its consumer banking presence in some of the world's major cities, pulling out from markets where it does not have enough branches to be competitive. In 2014...
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 (AFP) : A planned merger of two Malaysian finance firms that would have created the country's biggest bank has been scrapped three months after it was announced due to concerns about the economy, Bloomberg News reported...
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said Tuesday that the 20-party alliance will continue their ongoing non-stop blockade programme until the current 'unrepresentative' regime quits, reports UNB. In a statement, Rizvi said, "The main reason of our movement is...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Jan 13: Security in the West Zone of Bangladesh Railway (BR) has been strengthened to avert any train derailment or accident during the BNP-led 20-Party's ongoing blockade and hartal programme. Along with installing CC cameras, trains are being piloted...
FE Report | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
Banks now can set up new ATM and other electronic booths for automatic banking in the country of their own free will, needing no prior permission from the regulator. In a latest circular Bangladesh Bank (BB) relieved the banks of...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
PABNA, Jan 13: The 20-party alliance called a daylong hartal in Pabna tomorrow (Wednesday) in protest against arrest of 48 Jamaat men including its district ameer. Police detained 48 Jamaat men, including ameer of Pabna district, Tuesday. Meanwhile, Jatiyatabadi Chhatra...
Polls may be held after 5 yrs or even before, he says Prime Minister's Political Affairs Adviser HT Imam Tuesday said it is time to think about declaring BNP illegal as it was formed by a military ruler during his...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
The ministry of textiles and jute (MoTJ) has sought Tk 1.78 billion from the government to provide dearness allowance (DA) to nearly 70,000 workers of the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC), officials said. They said a letter was sent to...
The Department of Shipping (DoS) has suspended the route permits of marine vessels 'Parabat-9' and 'Sundarban-8 Tuesday following the death of three people in a head-on collision between the two launches in the Meghna River in Mohona area, reports UNB....
Observing that student politics in the country has made a retreat from its ideology ground, President Md Abdul Hamid urged Tuesday all to shun personal and group interest and make student politics ideology- and public welfare-oriented one, reports UNB. "I'm...
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