Industry

The government on Thursday formally declared six sectors child labour free as part of its move to eradicate child labour by 2025. State Minister for Labour Monnujan Sufian at a press briefing held at Srama Bhavan in the city made the declaration announcing the...

Bangladesh has good potential to build ships and earn sufficient remittance to increase the country's economy by exporting them to other countries, said experts on Sunday. Speaking at a seminar titled ''Transforming to a Shipbuilding and exporting country: challenges for Bangladesh," experts urged the...

Owners of washing factories in Keraniganj on Tuesday urged the government to allow them to reopen their factories to collect money from clients who are not paying their overdue invoices. ''Allow us to reopen and run the factories here until they are relocated to...

Times of the pandemic is an inflection point in the path of economic and social progress, COVID has been one such point of inflection which has turned all the established canons of business topsyturvy and has forced all the players to grow back to the drawing board...

Bangladesh is formulating a national productivity masterplan to improve the industrial productivity in the country. As per media reports, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, during discussion with regional experts recently, underlined that the Government targets to improve the productivity in all industrial sectors...

Bangladesh has joined the hydrogen energy race by setting up of a research centre and a pilot processing plant. The project is part of the government’s larger effort to diversify the country’s energy mix, which is still largely dependent on gas and coal. Hydrogen...

Marketing is the heart of an organization as it not only helps to navigate company to generate maximum consistent inflow of fund but also acts as the guiding force towards sustainability. Marketing refers to 5 Ps; i.e. Product, Price, Placement, Packaging and Promotion that helps sales to...

করোনাভাইরাস মোকাবিলায় দেশের কুটির, ক্ষুদ্র ও মাঝারি শিল্প খাতে গতি সঞ্চার, গ্রামীণ প্রান্তিক জনগোষ্ঠীর জীবনমান উন্নয়ন এবং অতিদরিদ্র বয়স্ক ও বিধবাদের জন্য সামাজিক নিরাপত্তা কর্মসূচি সম্প্রসারণের লক্ষ্যে নতুন দুটি প্রণোদনা কর্মসূচি অনুমোদন করেছেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা। কর্মসূচি দুটির মোট বরাদ্দ ২ হাজার ৭০০ কোটি টাকা, যার বাস্তবায়ন...

Bangladesh Bank, for the first time, has formed a fund of Tk 1,000 crore to modernise export-oriented industries that will be able to take loans at 5 percent to 6 percent interest, much lower than the present 9 percent charged by banks. According to...

I firmly believe that waiting for things to improve is not the best way forward, of course making change happen is a revolution, so what can be best done is to use this time to prepare for a future beyond the pandemic, like some smart companies have done.