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April 2025

Country powers ahead on off-grid solar

More than the technology it is the advocacy that allowed the Bright Green Energy Foundation (BGEF) to install more than 145,000 solar home systems (SHS) that benefit eight million rural people in Bangladesh. SHS units including solar panels, battery and regulator are not displayed in showrooms. Instead BGEF has been directly promoting the benefits of its environment-friendly technology in the field since 2010, when it was registered. solar BanglaDipal Chandra Barua, the founder of BGEF, puts his faith in rural-based Green Technology Centres...

Japan’s security bills to break regional order: Experts

Bangladeshi experts has said that Japan’s security bills will bring new complications into global and regional politics as the country seeks to play an aggressive role to counter the existing regional order. Their comments came after Japan’s ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rammed through the controversial security bills that will expand the role of the country’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in the all-powerful lower house of the nation’s Diet amid strong public opposition. BD-JapanThe bills also show that Japan eyes China’s existing ...

RMG export growth to new markets declines

According to sources, the FE says, Bangladeshi apparel is losing out in emerging markets to competitors like Vietnam, Cambodia, India and Pakistan, as many buyers cut back orders due to political unrest, safety and other compliance issues in the country.According to a report in Bangladesh’s Financial Express (FE) this morning, the country’s ready-made garments (RMG) exports to non-traditional markets have recorded just marginal growth in the fiscal year just ended (2014-15). Insiders are said to consider this alarming news for the country’s apparel sector. rmg

Eid ul-Fitr tomorrow

Eid ul-Fitr, the biggest festival of the Muslim community of Bangladesh will be observed tomorrow. Muslims across country thus observed the last Friday prayers of the month of Ramadan. Despite the rain, malls were packed — men, women and children, all were finishing last-minute shopping. Tailors’ machines still sew new clothes frenetically in order to deliver them by Friday night. Eid mubarakA tailor master in a mall in capital Dhaka, Abdul Halim, says: “Most of the pressure we face is in the last week of Ramadan and especially the last da...

Malaysia mulling sourcing maids from Bangladesh

There appears to be no end to the problems surrounding the shortage of foreign maids in Malaysia. Currently, there are some 150,000 foreign domestic helpers working legally in this country, most of them Indonesians and Filipinas. With the two source nations – Indonesia and the Philippines – having declared their intentions to cease supplying maids to Malaysia, it is high time the government weaned itself off its dependence on those two countries. maids from BDWith Malaysians generally shunning employment in the domestic help sector, the g...

Siemens inches up securing order in Bangladesh

Siemens rose 0.79% to Rs 1,486.15 at 12:35 IST on BSE after the company said it has won a crucial turnkey order worth approximately Rs 123 crore from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh, the country’s leading transmission utility. The announcement was made during market hours today, 16 July 2015. Siemens-Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 150.56 points or 0.53% at 28,348.85. On BSE, so far 14,000 shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 36,308 shares in the past one quarter. The stock was volatile. The stock ros...
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