Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent: As part of the government’s target to ensure housing for the landless and homeless people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over about 33,000 houses to landless and homeless families today ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.“The government will hand over 32,904 houses to landless and homeless families. Prime Minister Sheikh…

–Engineering equipments –Govt support sought Industry Desk: Bangladesh’s engineering equipment gradually steps up in the international market primarily because of its quality and competitiveness and it accomplished over 153 percent growth in the nine months of this fiscal 2021-22, according to Export Promotion Bureau data.The shipments of the product aggregated…

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterdayemphasised the need for taking a basin-based approach to manage waters of trans-boundary rivers alongside a better water management system to ‘build back better’ from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.“In the Asia-Pacific region, we must combine our forces to share good practices, knowledge and technologies…

Dilapidated roads may cause of fatal accidents Golam Mostafa Jibon: Eid holidaymakers are in fear of rough ride due to deplorable condition of roads across the country. Many are also apprehending that, they may face fatal accidents, if the repairing works of ramshackle roads are not completed by the scheduled…

Staff Correspondent: Standard Chartered Bangladesh has established a host-to-host (H2H) integration solution for Suguna Food and Feeds Bangladesh Private Limited (Suguna), one of the largest multinational feed companies operating in the poultry industry of Bangladesh.Standard Chartered Bank was the first to introduce the concept of host-to-host integration in cash management…

Staff Correspondent: Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that imports of luxury goods will be controlled till the red-hot global inflation normalises and comes down to a tolerable level.He revealed the information after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase yesterday. He said that imports were never…

Diplomatic Correspondent: Bangladesh will be seeking an additional $500 million in budget support at the Annual General Meeting of the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to fight the corona crisis and for economic recovery, official sources said. The weeklong meeting is being held physically in Washington DC…

Industry Desk: After sending the public jute mills to the private sector citing losses over the years, the government is now considering privatisation of the state-owned sugar mills also.Frustrated by the huge amount of losses and accumulated debt, the government is now contemplating to hand over three state-owned sugar mills…