Govt approves 162MW power plant project Bangladesh and China are going to set up a 162-megawatt furnace oil-based power plant under private investment as per the former’s policy. The cabinet committee on purchase approved the plant at a meeting yesterday with Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair. The government will buy electricity from the […]
Left, Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and Douglas Foo, president of Singapore Manufacturing Federation, sign a memorandum of understanding on business cooperation between the two trade bodies, in Singapore on Tuesday. Photo: PID FBCCI teams up with Singaporean federation to boost trade The country’s apex trade […]
Duty benefit extended for fire safety tools import National Board of Revenue has extended duty benefit along with relaxing conditions for export-oriented readymade garment industries in import of fire safety equipment. Customs wing of the revenue board on March 11 issued a statutory regulatory order amending the previous SRO and relaxing restriction on the number of […]
A file photo shows a ship anchored at the Chittagong port. The government without any feasibility study is preparing contracts to purchase gas from two foreign companies who would import and regasify liquefied natural gas using the jetties of two fertiliser factories on the downstream of the Chittagong port that handles 90 per cent of […]
First meeting of wage board for apparel workers held ]The owners and workers’ representatives to the wage board for apparel workers were asked to place their proposals on the minimum salary at its first meeting yesterday. Senior District Judge Syed Aminul Islam, chairman of the board, made the call, said Siddiqur Rahman, president of the […]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks at the opening of Bangladesh-Singapore Business Forum 2018 at Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore yesterday. Photo: PID Be our development partner Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday invited the business community in Singapore to be Bangladesh’s partners in its journey towards economic development as the country was now transforming. “Bangladesh has […]
Summit teams up with Japanese firms for $3b LNG-to-power project Summit Power International said yesterday it signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp and subsidiary Diamond Gas International to develop a $3 billion LNG-to-power project in Bangladesh. Under the MoU, subsidiary Summit Corp, group company Summit Holdings and the Japanese firms agreed to […]
Govt works on 3rd submarine cable Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd (BSCCL) has kick-started the preparations for its third undersea cable link to meet the country’s growing demand for data. “It will hardly take few years to consume all the bandwidth the country has right now,” said Mustafa Jabbar, telecom minister. The country’s data consumption […]
ঢাকায় কাল শুরু হচ্ছে তিন দিনের মালয়েশীয় পণ্যের প্রদর্শনী ইত্তেফাক রিপোর্ট মালয়েশিয়া থেকে জনশক্তি রপ্তানি আয় দ্বিগুণ করা সম্ভব বলে মনে করছেন বাংলাদেশ-মালয়েশিয়া চেম্বারের (বিএমসিসিআই) নেতারা। তবে এ জন্য সরকারের তরফে সঠিক উদ্যোগ নেওয়ার দাবি তাদের। গতকাল মঙ্গলবার জাতীয় প্রেসক্লাবে এক সংবাদ সম্মেলনে তারা এ মত দেন। আগামীকাল থেকে ঢাকায় শুরু হতে যাওয়া তিন দিনের […]
তৈরি পোশাক রপ্তানিতে ২০১৬ সালে (পঞ্জিকা বছর ধরে) বিশ্বের শীর্ষ দশ দেশের মধ্যে বাংলাদেশ সর্বোচ্চ ৬ শতাংশ প্রবৃদ্ধি অর্জন করেছে। এ ক্ষেত্রে চীন, ইউরোপীয় ইউনিয়ন (ইইউ), ভিয়েতনাম, ভারত, হংকংয়ের মতো প্রতিযোগী দেশকে পেছনে ফেলেছে বাংলাদেশ। তবে শীর্ষ দশে থাকা কম্বোডিয়াও বাংলাদেশের মতো ৬ শতাংশ প্রবৃদ্ধি অর্জন করেছে। বিশ্ব বাণিজ্য সংস্থার (ডব্লিউটিও) ‘ওয়ার্ল্ড ট্রেড স্ট্যাটেসটিকস রিভিউ […]