Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and Bangladesh have discussed opportunities to intensify trade and economic cooperation. The meeting was co-chaired by EEC Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics Eldar Alisherov and Bangladesh Additional Secretary of Commerce Aisha Akter at the EEC headquarters recently.
"Since the conclusion of the Memorandum of Cooperation in 2019, the trade turnover between the Eurasian Economic Union member states and Bangladesh has been on an upward trend, and at the end of 2024, the growth of trade turnover exceeded 5%.
US Deputy Nat’l Security Adviser calls CA’s High Representative
US Deputy National Security Advisor Alex N. Wong held a telephone conversation Wednesday evening with the Chief Adviser's High Representative Dr. Khalilur Rahman. The two officials discussed a broad range of matters of mutual interest and agreed to remain in contact, CA's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said.
This is the highest level contact so far between the new US administration and the Interim Go...
Bangladesh now faces 37pc tarifrs on exports to USA
US President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs to match duties put on US goods by other countries, ratcheting up a trade war he kicked off on his return to the White House.[caption id="attachment_33284" align="alignleft" width="576"]US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria[/caption]
During an event in the White House Ros...
Gulf states not to allow US to use airfields, skies to attack Iran
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have imposed a ban on US warplanes using their airfields or skies to attack Iran after US President Donald Trump over the weekend threatened to bomb the country.[caption id="attachment_33272" align="alignleft" width="557"]US Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircrafts at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, on 7 September 2021 (Olivier Douliery/AFP)[/caption]
Saudi Arabia, t...
BJP, RSS fear regime change in India like Hasina
Dilip Deodhar, a well-known Nagpur-based RSS researcher, said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have tried to leave their differences behind, and the fall of the Hasina government in Bangladesh had a huge role to play."The Sangh had apprised the BJP leadership of its concerns that a regime change that took place in Bangladesh through street protests could also happen in India. Many of the Opposition leaders had spoken after the Bangladesh results that a similar thing was needed in the country. So, the concerns were not unwarranted. Both the Sangh and the BJP know that there are external forces that do not want India to have its own foreign policy."Things between the BJP government at the Centre and its p...Towards a new job-creation agenda in Bangladesh
Generating sufficient productive jobs in Bangladesh is arguably the most important developmental challenge facing the country today. A recently published World Bank report offers new insights into how to meet this challenge. It calls for a shift in the country’s development strategy so that it caters for both frontier and non-frontier firms, thereby negating the historical focus on a narrow group of the most productive firms.
