DHAKA: Speakers at a high-level event to commemorate One Year after Rana Plaza, reiterated their commitment to working together to ensure safety and rights for workers in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker

DHAKA: Campaigners are planning to mark the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh by forming a human chain on London’s busiest shopping street while urging retailers to be more transparent about their supply chains.Trade union activists will join pressure groups as part

DHAKA: The Omron Healthcare Bangladesh Ltd. started providing services through a formal inauguration taken place at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the city.Health Minister Mohammed Nasim MP was present in that occasion as Chief Guest. Omron Healthcare is the World`s leading manufacturer for

DHAKA: Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a loan aid of 25 crores US Dollars for the sake of the capital’s pure drinking water. ADB is providing this loan assistance under the project of “Dhaka Environment Friendly Sustainable Water Supply.”A deal was signed at the auditorium

DHAKA: Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) authorities Wednesday proposed to raise the amount of tax exemption upto Tk 50,000 on the profit at stock markets in stead of Tk 10,000.Authorities of two bourses of the country made the proposal, along with some other

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently requested elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to detain the syndicate involved with Asia-E-banking, which deceived millions of educated youths giving lucrative fraudulent bank jobs offer.   BB in a written letter requested RAB to bring the

PARBATIPUR, DINAJPUR: Agitating miners and workers of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) kept the company officials confined for the second successive day on Wednesday.The agitators began demonstration at 12:00on Tuesday demanding cancellation of the new manpower structure and

DHAKA: A garment hub will be set up on more than 500 acres of land at Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj district. A committee headed-by a director-general of Prime Minister’s Office has already started working to implement the plan.Prime Minister’s Special Assistant (media) Mahbubul Alam

DHAKA: Investors witnessed gain in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses on Wednesday.The key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, DSEX, rose over 34 points to stand at 4,692 at the close on the fourth trading day of the week.The volume of transactions stood Tk 5,473 million 101,315 with

SAVAR: A devastating fire gutted factory of Otobi furniture in Savar, outskirt of the capital on Tuesday night.Originating from a short circuit at layer section of the factory around 8:45pm, the fire engulfed the whole factory instantly. Later, 15 units of fire fighters rushed to the spot

DHAKA: Country’s economic sector has shown a surprising stability despite recent political crisis.Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman came up with the observation on Tuesday while addressing the Bangladesh Bank Officer-Employee Honor-2012 giving ceremony as the chief guest at the

DHAKA: After the Spectrum sweater factory collapsed in 2005, killing 64 workers, hardly anything changed to improve factory safety in Bangladesh, reports The New York Times.             Then the Rana Plaza factory near Dhaka collapsed on April 24 last year, killing 1,129

DHAKA: In keeping with its vision of expanding its global footprint to as many as 50 countries by 2020, Hero MotoCorp Ltd (HMCL) - the world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer – Monday launched its operations in Bangladesh through a Joint Venture (JV) with the reputed Nitol Niloy

DHAKA: AB Bank Limited approved seven percent stock and five percent cash dividend for its shareholders at the 32ndAnnual General Meeting (AGM) of the Bank held on Monday at the Bashundhara Convention Centre-2, Dhaka.The AGM approved the annual report and the audited financial statements

DHAKA: The car manufacturers of the country have launched a brand new family car (Sobari) at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at only Tk 6.45-lac.The car was unveiled at the last day of three-day long exhibition ‘The Biggest and Only Show for the Automotive World of

DHAKA: Investors witnessed gain in the benchmark indices of the country’s bourses on Monday.The key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, DSEX, rose over 32 points to stand at 4,648 at the close on the second trading day of the week.Trade deals stood at 99,753 with transaction at Tk 4,611

DHAKA: The customers of Standard Chartered (StanChart) bank have raised allegations of sufferings against the bank. The sufferers have told that it misbehaves with the customers as well as the bank also have trimmed lowered socially. So they have termed the bank as the ‘Killer

DHAKA: Bangladesh Merchant Banker Association (BMBA) on Sunday demanded the withdrawal of double taxation from same types of income.In pre-budget discussion at conference room of National Board of Revenue (NBR) 2014-15 fiscal year in city, the organization placed the demand.BMBA Assistant

DHAKA: Investors witnessed negligible gain in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses on Sunday.The DSE broad index rose over 17 points to stand at 4616 at the close on the first trading day of the week.The volume of transactions stood Tk 90,804 million with 3,991 trade deals.   Of

DHAKA: A new era has initiated for Grameen Solutions Ltd. (GSL) with collaboration with Denmark based Company CodersTrust. The partnership was announced before Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group and Morten Lund, Co-investor of Skype, ZYB.This auspicious event held in