Month: July 2014

Technological inefficiency, environmental concern, lack of skilled manpower and weakness of infrastructure are key barriers to the development of the country’s prospective plastic sector, said experts and exporters on Monday. In a seminar on ‘Export-oriented plastic industry of Bangladesh: challenges and opportunities,’ they said that Bangladesh had not yet able

Bangladesh Bank has slapped a fine of Tk 10,000 on The Farmers Bank managing director Choudhury Moshtaq Ahmed on charge of illegal payment of Tk 1.92 crore as office rent. The newly-launched Farmers Bank paid one of the directors of the bank, who is also the owner of the building that housed the headquarters of ... Read more

Information minister Hasanul Haque Inu at a regular cabinet meeting on Monday recommended that the government lowers the international call termination rate for IGWs to 1.5 US cents from existing 3 cents which will cause the government to lose Tk 1,073 crore. Inu raised the issue when prime minister Sheikh Hasina,