Bangladesh’s trade deficit ballooned in fiscal 2014-15 that ended June 30 on the back of increased imports, a central bank official said on Wednesday.
The trade deficit in the fiscal surged 45.97 percent to about $10 billion compared to a year earlier, Xinhua
quoted a Bangladesh Bank (BB) official as saying.
The official said the country’s import payment was $40.69 billion, up 11 percent, in the last fiscal year while earnings from exports stood at $30.77 billion, up 3.3 percent, during the same period.
The gap between Bangladesh’s export earnings and imp...
A middle-aged pot-smoking apothecary owner; his 18-year-old aspiring hijab fashion designer daughter Charu; his adopted 20-year old daughter/niece Ella who is haunted by the untimely death of her biological parents; and Maya, the daughter of a local Islamic cleric, Charu’s friend and Ella’s love interest. These are the main protagonists in Bright Lines, Bangladeshi-American writer Tanwi Nandini Islam’s debut novel, which is released today.
Bright Lines goes beyond the tired cliché of South Asian characters juxtaposed against their white counterparts. The novel’s South Asian characters, set in 2004 Brooklyn which some time traveling to 1971 Bangladesh, are surrounded by other communities of color and interact with them on a daily basis on the busy streets of New York. The characters i...
Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd. (LSC), one of the leading multinational cement manufacturers of Bangladesh signed an MOU (Memorandum of understanding) with bti (building technology & ideas ltd.), one of the leading real estate companies of Bangladesh recently
. Under this agreement, bti will use Supercrete Cement from now on in its construction projects.
Masud Khan, Finance Director of Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd and Md. Sharifur Rahman, Executive Director (Construction) of bti signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations...
Consumer behavior in the country has evolved rapidly in the country. With the increasing tele-penetration, the telecom sector has to cater to the needs of the consumer who belong to various socio-economic strata.
As a customer centric company, Robi has been very prompt in tailoring its conventional customer care service. Considering the varying requirements of subscribers from different segments of the society, the
company has now taken Customer care to the subscribers’ doorstep by introducing mobile...
Belal Hossain Rahat of Daily Alokoto Bangladesh and Moudud Sujan of Daily Sun were elected president and the general secretary respectively of Jahangirnagar University Journalist Association (JUJA) for 2015-2016 sessions.
Professor Shahedur Rashid of Geography Department, who conducted the election as the Chief Election Commissioner, has officially declared the result around 2:30pm on Wednesday.
Associate Professor Golam Rabbani of History Department and Jamal Uddin Runu of Environmental Sciences were present as the deputy election commissioners.
Other mem...
foodpanda Bangladesh, the largest online platform for ordering food in Bangladesh, worked on a Ramadan campaign by the name “Share Hope” with Assistance for Blind Children-ABC. Assistance for Blind Children-ABC is a nonprofit organization. ABC is working for person with disabilities especially for visual impaired and low vision children in Bangladesh.
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During the handover of the donation of “Share Hope” Campaign t...
