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Bangladesh needs to invest an estimated extra $7.8 billion over the next decade to halve its road crash fatalities, says a new World Bank report, according to indiaeducationdiary.in. The report, Delivering Road Safety in Bangladesh, released Friday in conjunction with the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road...

Bangladesh and Japan on Wednesday decided to form a Joint Working Group (JWG) on facilitating trade and business between the two countries.  The decision came at a meeting between commerce minister Tipu Munshi and Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki at Bangladesh Secretariat, according to a statement....

Walton is set to export smartphones to the US, in what can be viewed as a remarkable endorsement of the leaps taken by Bangladesh's manufacturing sector. "The dream of exporting 'Made in Bangladesh' smartphones is now coming true," said SM Monjurul Alam, managing director of Walton, adding...

Poor revenue collection has forced the government to exceed its annual borrowing limit from banking sources seven and half a months into the fiscal year, creating a probable credit crunch for the private sector. The government has set a borrowing limit of Tk 47,364 crore for fiscal...

The Economic Relations Division (ERD) has found poor implementation of the Disbursement Linked Results (DLR) on major components of the VAT Online Project (VOP) that may affect getting its remaining fund from the World Bank (WB). Some 50 per cent or US$ 30 million of the WB's...

Bangladesh mission in China has expressed the fear that export-import trade between Dhaka and Beijing may face a major setback due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. The outbreak of the coronavirus may also hit the Chinese supply chain, thus hampering bilateral trade seriously, he added. Commercial...

Investment in Bangladesh by overseas firms was far below their initial pledges in the past three consecutive years through 2018. Such a picture was painted in a written speech by AKM Mozammel Haque, a minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office in parliament. He said foreign...

There was a time when mobile handset buyers were used to searching for 'Made in Finland' or 'Made in Korea' for good quality devices. Later, 'Made in China' took the mantle, followed by 'Made in Vietnam'. Now, the time is for the 'Made in Bangladesh' tag line...

With each passing quarter, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have been setting new records, while cloud computing has become the invisible backbone supporting much of our daily lives. Its potential to become an even bigger part of people's daily existence is sky-high. The rising popularity of the cloud...

বাংলাদেশে তৃতীয় পুঁজিবাজার উন্নয়ন কর্মসূচির (সিএমডিপি) জন্য দ্বিতীয় কিস্তিতে ১৭০ মিলিয়ন মার্কিন ডলারের ঋণ প্রস্তাব অনুমোদন করেছে এশীয় উন্নয়ন ব্যাংক (এডিবি)।  প্রতি ডলার সমান ৮৫ টাকা ধরে বাংলাদেশি মুদ্রায় যা প্রায় দেড় হাজার কোটি টাকা। শনিবার এডিবির এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে বলা হয়, এডিবি ঋণ...