Green steel plant built under JICA fund
An environment friendly steel plant of Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Limited was built in Chattogram under the Private Sector Investment Finance scheme of Japan International Cooperation Agency...
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Missed chance or growth catalyst
MIGRATION has long been considered a one-way movement, with migrants leaving their country of origin and making the host nation their final abode. However, this notion of migration as a permanent transition has evolved. According to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates, roughly 40 per cent of migrants are likely to...
GP launches green service centre at Sylhet
Mobile phone operator Grameenphone has launched 鈥楪reen Grameenphone Centre鈥� in Sylhet鈥檚 Ambarkhana area, as first operator to serve their customers through an eco-friendly service centre...
EDOTCO unveils Tower Operation Centre
EDOTCO Bangladesh has launched its newly modernised 5G-ready Tower Operation Centre in Dhaka, said a press release...
AI strategy for Bangladesh
ARGUABLY, all socio-economic development has been driven by Intellectual Property and Operating System. When IP touches masses it morphs into OS in a transformative way 鈥� OS changes and touches lives on a global scale. OS opens the door for many new IP and fosters innovations and creativity for the masses, improving quality of life and creating...
Bangladesh interim govt chief urges Argentina to boost bilateral cooperation
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday urged Argentina to build on the emotional footballing ties that Bangladesh had with the country to increase bilateral cooperation in different fields, including trade...
AB Bank unveils operation manual
AB Bank PLC unveiled the revised 鈥極perations Manual鈥� at AB Bank鈥檚 head office in the capital Dhaka on January 19, according to a press release...
Pubali Bank chair stresses following BB rules
Pubali Bank PLC chairman Monzurur Rahman on Thursday instructed the bank鈥檚 officials to conduct banking operations by following rules and regulations of the Bangladesh Bank and the regulatory body, said a press release...
Destiny MD, 18 others get 12 years jail in embezzlement case
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Rafiqul Amin, managing director of Destiny Multipurpose Co-Operative Society Ltd, and 18 others to 12 years of jail in an embezzlement case...
BTRC issues order for internet packs with unlimited validity
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission directed mobile network operators or MNOs to introduce unlimited internet packages, both in terms of validity and volume...
Turkey threatens military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters
Turkey threatened Tuesday to launch a military operation against Kurdish forces in Syria unless they accepted Ankara鈥檚 conditions for a 鈥榖loodless鈥� transition after the fall of strongman president Bashar al-Assad...
BIMSTEC urged to boost trade
Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Monday urged the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation to prepare a roadmap to double regional trade...
Sonali Bank earns record Tk聽5,634 cr operating profit
Sonali Bank PLC achieved a record operating profit of Tk聽5,634 crore in 2024, which is Tk聽1,788 crore higher than the Tk聽3,846 crore reported in 2023...
IEPMP not economically viable: confce
The Integrated Power Master Plan is economically non-viable, speakers said at an energy conference on Wednesday...
US Trade Representative, BGMEA discuss RMG issues
US Trade Representative Brendan Lynch and Trade Policy Analyst for South and Central Asia Emily Ashby met with the leadership of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association at a hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday...
French internet firm fined 50m euros for unsolicited ads
France鈥檚 largest internet operator Orange was on Tuesday slapped with a 50-million-euro ($53-million) fine for sending unsolicited adverts resembling emails to customers...
Growing distrust of USA globally
THE special military operation in Ukraine essentially puts an end to the unipolar world in which the Americans considered themselves the supreme ruler, bossing around other countries...
OECD warns of protectionism weeks before Trump return
The OECD warned Wednesday that protectionist trade measures pose a major risk to disrupting the world聽economy, just weeks before Donald Trump is set to return to the White House...
GIZ delegation meets UGC chairman
A three-member German technical cooperation agency delegation paid a courtesy call on the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh chairman Professor SMA Faiz at the UGC in Dhaka on Tuesday...
Kuwait urges 鈥榠mmediate ceasefire鈥� for Gaza at Gulf summit
Kuwait鈥檚 ruler on Sunday urged an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as he addressed a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council held after nearly 14 months of war in the Palestinian territory...
Kyiv, Seoul will deepen security ties over North Korea troops
South Korea and Ukraine agreed Wednesday to deepen security cooperation in response to the 鈥榯hreat鈥� posed by the deployment of North Korea troops in Russia, the presidency in Seoul announced...
An opportunity to strengthen trade relations
EGYPT will host this year鈥檚 D-8 Summit (Developing-8) Organisation for Economic Cooperation, bringing together leaders from member states, namely Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey, targeting talks on boosting trade, investment, exports, and economic collaboration among each member. Meanwhile...
Three IUT students killed as picnic bus gets electrified in Gazipur
Three students of Islamic University of Technology, run and funded by Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, were killed and three others were injured as a bus carrying them became electrified when it came into contact with a high-voltage power cable in Gazipur鈥檚 Sreepur upazila on Saturday morning.
Air traffic disrupted in north as winter arrives
Dense fog disrupted flight operations during morning hours for the second consecutive running on Sunday at Saidpur airport as temperature has started falling in the northern region...
Bangladesh Biman receives ISAGO, RA3 certificates
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has recently received the IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations certificate from the International Air Transport Association as the highest recognition in the ground handling sector...
UGC holds exchange of views with KOICA delegation
Bangladesh University Grants Commission on Thursday held an exchange of views with a seven-member delegation of the Korea International Cooperation Agency at the commission in Dhaka...
How BRICS redefines global cooperation
THE 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, felt like a deliberate contrast to the annual IMF and World Bank meetings taking place in Washington. The timing couldn鈥檛 have been more telling. The optics of this contrast were hard to miss, giving off the impression of a bloc standing firmly apart from the US-dominated global order. While the West may see Kazan...
TOAB warns of strong movement to save industry
The president of the Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh Mohammad Rafeuzzaman on Sunday warned that they would go on a greater movement to save the industries if stopped tourists visiting and staying overnight in St Martins Island...
OECD launches guidelines on living wage due diligence
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, has developed a handbook to guide companies in applying the OECD due diligence framework to support living incomes and living wages in global supply chains...
Telco operators keep losing subscribers
All four mobile operators in the country experienced a decrease of subscription for the second consecutive month in August, according to data published by the Bangladesh...