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Indian entrepreneurs looking to work under joint collaboration

Visiting Indian business delegation on Wednesday expressed their keen interest to work with local entrepreneurs for the development of information technology (IT), education, health and banking sectors in Bangladesh. "We would like to work with local entrepreneurs for the development of IT, health, education and banking sectors in Bangladesh," President...

More needs to be done to ensure supply chain transparency

None of the 150 biggest global fashion brands could score over 60 per cent in a new transparency index, suggesting that more needs to be done in ensuring transparency in global supply chain.Only 10 of them scored over 50 and only one brand published information related to suppliers of raw...

Call to raise awareness among businesses

Speakers at a workshop on Wednesday said businesses should enclose proper documents with the application proposing imposition of anti-dumping duty on the imported products which create unfair competition.They also said there was still confusion among the business community and government officials about BTC and anti-dumping law, which should be clarified...

Construction of delivery yard, truck terminal starts soon

CHATTOGRAM, Apr 25: Congestion of containers, ships and traffic in port area will ease after construction of a delivery yard and truck terminal in the proposed Chittagong Bay Terminal as these activities will be relocated there from the Chattogram Port.The Bay Terminal will be set up on 907 acres of...

Food Chain Asia brings gourmet foods

Food Chain Asia Limited opened three international chain restaurants outlets in the capital's Dhanmondi area on Wednesday.The outlets, housed at a multi-storey building on Plot 754/B, Satmasjid Road, will offer a number of mouth-watering international foods for food lovers in the city, including Canadian coffee, Seafood and premium Burgers.The three...

Turn Agrani SME Financing Co into state-owned entity

State-run Agrani Bank has urged the government to count its subsidiary Agrani SME Financing Company (ASMEFC) Limited as a state-owned non-bank financial institution, a source said.Deputy Managing Director (in charge) of the bank Md Yousuf Ali made the request in a letter to the Ministry of Finance recently, the source...

BSMRMU VC meets President

Vice Chancellor of only maritime-specialised public university of the country, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman Maritime University (BSMRMU) Rear Admiral M Khaled Iqbal met President and Chancellor of BSMRMU Md Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban recently, says a press release.The senior officials of the President's office along with the Director (Planning, Development...

News Briefs--(26-04-2018)

US-Bangla to connect Dhaka to Guangzhou US-Bangla Airlines, a private carrier, will begin its flight operations on Dhaka-Guangzhou route today (Thursday). Initially, three flights will be operated from Dhaka to Guangzhou on every Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday and return flights from Guangzhou to Dhaka on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Guangzhou...

Anis A Khan, Managing Director and CEO of Mutual Trust Bank Limited

Anis A Khan, Managing Director and CEO of Mutual Trust Bank Limited, and Md Abul Bashar, General Manager, Financial Inclusion Department, Bangladesh Bank, exchanging documents after signing a participatory financial institutions agreement on refinance under the 'Second Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Development Project-2' at a simple ceremony on the...

BISL's 3rd annual general meeting

Managing Director of Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd (BDBL) and Chairman of BDBL Investment Services Limited (BISL) Manjur Ahmed presiding over the BISL's 3rd annual general meeting at the bank's head office in the capital on Wednesday

Beijing invites overseas investors to boost chip outputs

BEIJING, Apr 25 (Reuters): China is looking for billions of dollars in funds to propel its domestic ambitions in chips tocut a heavy reliance on imports, and has invited overseas investors to help it get there.The country's industry ministry said on Wednesday that it welcomed foreign enterprises to invest in...

CEO of Kingsley Engineering Corporation, Bamgladesh Md Asiqur Rahman

CEO of Kingsley Engineering Corporation, Bamgladesh Md Asiqur Rahman and Manager of International trade of CNP NM Fire Claire Liu, China posing for photo after signing a partnership agreement between the two companies in presence of other high officials in the city recently

Islands call for debt relief ahead of next hurricane season

NEW YORK CITY: Officials from governments, the IMF, World Bank, the private sector and NGOs meet this week at the United Nations for the Financing for Development (FFD) Forum. The annual gathering seeks to implement the Addis Ababa Action Agenda that governments endorsed in 2015 in Ethiopia, says a press...