Bangladesh has emerged as a country free of risk of money laundering and terror financing, downing fears that the country might re-enter the list for “slack implementation of laws”.
In current rating, Bangladesh avoided the International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) and was declared a risk free nation, Bangladesh Bank said in a statement today.
Fears were on after Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), the global body that ranks countries, acknowledged Bangladesh of having “slack imp...
Kuwait has reintroduced a ban on recruitment of workers from Bangladesh after months from reopening it under certain controls.
The interior ministry took the decision on Monday, reports the Kuwait Times.
Undersecretary Assistant for Citizenship and Passports Affairs Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah made the decision Monday after viewing statistics which showed that the number of the Bangladeshi community in Kuwait reached 200,000 as of the end of last week, Al-Anbaa daily reported Tuesday quoting ...
A private firm in Bangladesh is planning to put up a 30 MW solar power plant on Madarer Char, an island formed by sediments brought down from the Himalayas by the Teesta river. A joint venture with a French company, the island is in the Dimla sub-district of Nilphamari district in north-western Bangladesh, about 40 km downstream from the place where the transboundary river Teesta enters Bangladesh from India.
The joint venture company formed for the purpose by Bangladeshi business house Nilsagor Group and the French company Velcan Energy will sell the electricity to the national grid.
While a sediment-formed island – called char – can suffer partial or complete inundation, some
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Robi has distributed relief items to 300 flood affected families in Char Chilmari – a remote village in Doulatpur, Kushtia.
Lt. Col. Md. Shahidul Islam, Commander of 47 Border Guard Battalion was present to coordinate the distribution. Robi’s Manager, Corporate Responsibility, Shafiqur Rahman
Bhuiyan; Regional Manager Kushtia Shikder Md. Amir Khasru; Area Manager Md. Moshiur Rahman and Manager Cluster Facilities Raziuddin Bhuiya were present on the occasion.
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Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) organized a national level workshop on “Prospects of natural fiber based product and the closing ceremony of the project” today under Bangladesh INSPIRED program funded by the Ministry of Industries, GoB and the European Union at Ivy Rahman Auditorium, Bangladesh Mohila Somity, Dhaka. Mr. Amir Hossain Amu, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Industries, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh graced the occasion as the Chief Guest, while Mr. Mario Ronconi, Minister Counsellor and Head of Cooperation, Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh was present as the Guest of Honor and Mr. Shushen Chandra Das, Project Director, Bangladesh INSPIRED and Additional Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Mr. Sirajul Islam, Dir...
Independent upstream oil and gas company KrisEnergy has commenced drilling at the Bangora-6 development well in the Block 9 production sharing contract, onshore Bangladesh.
The Bapex Bijoy 10 rig is being used to drill the Bangora-6 development well from the Golpanagar site in the northern section of Block 9, which is located approximately 50 km east of Dhaka.
The company plans to drill the well to a total measured depth of 3,786m.
In 2015, gross production from the Bangora field averaged 106 million cubi...
