Confederation of Indian Industry has proposed two joint business-to-business taskforces aimed at expanding Bangladesh-India trade and investment, Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir said Tuesday.
Bangladesh home minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the government would not act on a recent United Nations Security Council report warning that Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent was seeking to establish cells in Bangladesh, calling the assessment assumption-driven.
Bangladesh’s gas supply has improved from last week’s severe shortage, but factories continue to struggle with low pressure as more fuel is directed to power plants.
Justice AKM Asaduzzaman, who retired from Bangladesh’s Appellate Division in February, has been appointed chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission as the government reconstitutes the anti-graft watchdog.
Bangladesh’s two stalled Dhaka metro projects could cost more than twice their original estimates because of a stronger U.S. dollar, inflation, higher taxes, and station design changes, a government-appointed expert committee found.
Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram had been convicted twice for labor-law violations before nine workers were killed at the yard Aug. 14, according to Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments records.
City detective police arrested an expelled Jatiyatabadi Swecchasebak Dal leader Monday in connection with a shooting targeting journalists in Khulna district, police said.
Asian Development Bank vice president Yingming Yang said the Manila-based lender is ready to help Bangladesh become an upper-middle-income country and a trillion-dollar economy by 2034.
Mongla Economic Zone is expected to create about 60,000 jobs in two phases, with first-phase work scheduled to begin in October, shipping minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam said Sunday.
Bangladesh’s High Court will rule Tuesday on a petition challenging Article 70 of the constitution and seeking to halt the Aug. 20 presidential election schedule.
