In northern Bangladesh, a 17km-long industrial conveyor belt carries in limestone from a mine on the other side of the border with India. It feeds a cement-making factory, which ships its output down a river to the capital, Dhaka. There the stone—mined in India and processed in the Bangladeshi hinterland—becomes, block by block, part of one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.
Your correspondent had always wanted to see this conveyor belt, not least to find out if a customs officer is there to man it. But those plans were swiftly pushed to the side by another, even more tantalising idea. Apparently, back in 1994, North Korea’s late dictator, Kim Jong Il, deployed his own country’s miners to a different bit of northern Bangladesh—to help to develop a mine there.
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Global entrepreneurship week (GEW) is being celebrated in the city with a flying start focusing on the “importance of an entrepreneurial community” to inspire the next wave of innovative entrepreneurs.
The kickoff began at the News Cred office in Dhaka with an opening talk by MK Aaref of EdwardMKennedyCenter in the city and Toby Glucksman, Deputy Political and Economic Counselor and Economic Chief of US Embassy, Dhaka.
This was followed by a fireside chat moderated by Samad Miraly of Olympic with Md. Sabur Khan, President of DCCI and Pial Islam of PI Consulting. The event ended with a panel session on Water Sanitation App Fest hackathon talk by Mirva Tuulia Moilanen, Communications Specialist, The World Bank.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Thursday signed a loan agreement worth $90 million with Bangladesh to overhaul the country's secondary education sector and build the foundation for developing a skilled labour force.
The assistance is the first tranche of the $500 million Secondary Education Sector Investment Programme (SESIP) approved by ADB in September this year, said a statement from the Manila-based lender.
Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad, secretary of Bangladesh's Economic Relations Division (ERD) and M. Teresa Kho, country director for ADB's Bangladesh Resident Mission, signed the loan agreement.
"Skills shortage is a key challenge Bangladesh is facing to graduate to the next orbit of development," said Teresa Kho.
Airtel Bangladesh Ltd, one of the fastest growing mobile service providers of the country, has announced that the Airtel 3G network has been further stretched over significant parts of the two biggest metropolitan cities of Bangladesh, Dhaka and Chittagong, as a part of their 3G roll out plan.
Within 2 weeks of official launch, Airtel Bangladesh Limited has announced the availability of 3G network in new areas of Dhaka and Chittagong. During the official launch, Airtel Bangladesh launched their 3G network in Baridhara, Gulshan 1 and 2, Banani, Mohakhali, Bijoy Sharani, Farm Gate, Tejgaon, Lalmatia, Kalabagan, Panthapath and Hatirpool areas of the Dhaka city. Now Airtel Bangladesh has rapidly expanded their 3G network to Uttara, Dhanmondi, New Market, Elephant Road, Shahbagh, Mirpur 1...
Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd (SJIBL) opened its 86
th branch at Nagarpur in Tangail on Thursday. Khandaker Abdul Baten, member of parliament in Tangail-6, formally inaugurated the branch as chief guest while the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of SJIBL Syed Nurul Arefeen was persent as special guest.
Md. Abdul Jabber Chowdhury, Deputy Managing Director of SJIBL presided over the inaugural ceremony.
Khandaker Abdul Baten said, if we want to ensure congenial environment and peaceful life all should have to work for the c...
India's Amira Foods has won a tender to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh after submitting the lowest offer at $314.60 a tonne, an official of the state grains purchasing agency said on Wednesday.
This was the highest price the agency has paid in tenders since the start of July. The price included cost, freight, insurance and other port-related expenses.
The tender is part of a plan by the Directorate General of Food to import 850,000 tonnes of wheat in the financial year through June 2014, up from around 350,000 tonnes the previous year.
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