Industry

Country’s combined nominal wage rate of agriculture, industry and services in the last fiscal year (FY20) increased by the slowest pace in the last five years. Wage Rate Index (WRI), released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), showed that the index increased by 6.35 per cent...

করোনাভাইরাসের সম্ভাব্য ক্ষতি এড়াতে ঝুঁকি নিয়ে চা বাগানগুলোতে উৎপাদন অব্যাহত রাখা হয়েছিল। কিন্তু বৈশ্বিক এ মহামারির প্রভাব এড়াতে পারেনি দেশের চা-শিল্প। করোনার কারণে কমে গেছে বেচাকেনা ও দাম। বিপাকে পড়েছেন বাগান মালিকরা। উৎপাদিত চা বিক্রি না হওয়া ও দাম না পাওয়ায় বাগান চালাতে হিমশিম খাচ্ছেন তাঁরা। বাগান...

Manufacturing activity in Bangladesh dropped as much as 28.78 per cent in April from a month earlier, official figures showed, in a first glimpse of the major blow the coronavirus pandemic dished out to the economy. It declined 25.57 per cent in April from a year earlier,...

রাজধানীর মানিকনগর এলাকায় থাকেন জাকির হোসেন (২৮)। আগে কাজ করতেন ঢাকা-বাইপাইল সড়কে চলা লাব্বাইক পরিবহনে। এপ্রিল থেকে টানা জুন পর্যন্ত বেকার ছিলেন। এখন ভ্যানে সবজি বিক্রি করেন। গ্রামে জমি থাকলে সেখানে চলে যেতেন তিনি। কিন্তু সে উপায় না থাকায় ঢাকায় কর্মহীনভাবে যখন পরিবার নিয়ে বাস করা কঠিন...

Youth unemployment in Bangladesh may more than double in 2020 if the country takes six months to contain the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused economic output and demand to fall drastically, said a new report. In 2019, the youth unemployment rate was 11.9 per cent and it...

Auctions for tea sales resumed on May 18, after a break of two months' Covid-19 shutdown, but the price has dropped by about 47 percent over 10 auctions. Due to the closure of tea stalls and restaurants in the country to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the...

Out Of Home advertising is becoming more and more powerful on a global scale every single day. And Bangladesh is not far behind in this trend either. OOH, when implemented properly, can be more effective than other advertising methods and the reasoning behind that is manyfold. IT STANDS...

Oryx Bio-Tech Ltd is set to establish the country’s first bio-tech industry at Bangabandhu High-Tech City at Kaliakoir in Gazipur at the cost of around US$300 million, said sources. The company will develop the plant with the handling capacity of around 1,200 tonnes of plasma for manufacturing...

Logistics is the backbone of economic activities in a country. A sustainable and optimized logistics system can lower trading costs and help countries compete globally. Additionally, having a plan for logistics in supply chain management is extremely important to the success of businesses; either big or small....

No entrepreneur in the shipbuilding sector has received any incentives so far despite the government announcing incentives for various heavy industries to mitigate the loss due to Covid-19 outbreak. According to this industry insiders, investment in this shipbuilding sector, which exports ships abroad after meeting the local...