India is richer, in terms of per-capita economic output, than its smaller neighbor, Bangladesh, and a greater proportion of Indians are connected to the Internet and have cellphones.
But if you look more closely at other measures of development such as life expectancy, child survival and the proportion of girls to boys in secondary education, and Bangladesh comes out ahead.
The two countries spend the same proportion (1%) of their gross domestic product on healthcare, but India devotes more of its GDP (3%) to education tha...
A good number of visitors spotted at the Eid Shopping Exhibition, 4th Bangladesh Fashion Carnival 2015 at Emmanuell’s Banquet Hall at Gulshan-1 in the city.
Over 45 companies from home and abroad are participating in this exhibition titled ‘Bangladesh Fashion Carnival- 2015’, 4th of its kind & will run till 7th June 2015.
“from Friday morning visitors already coming in the fashion carnival to get best products for Eid,” Ahmed Imtiaz, CEO of the organizer, told the news agency today. Imtiaz said the exhibition was targeted to huge Eid-...
Businessmen in the country’s apparel sector are not happy with the proposed tax at source in the national budget for 2015-16 fiscal.
At a press conference at the office of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) at Karwan Bazar in the city on Friday, they feared increasing tax at source would hinder the natural growth of the country’s readymade sector.
They also alleged that the proposed budget has not been garment-sector-friendly and demanded withdrawal of the proposed tax at source.
In his budget proposal on Thursday, finance minister AMA Muhith proposed an increase of tax at source from 0.3 to 1 per cent in the sector.
BGMEA president Atiqul Islam read out a written statement at the press conference organised jointly by the BGMEA, Bangladesh Kni...
A team of four students from Southeast University (SEU) School of Business Studies achieved the first runners-up position in the ‘Inter University Social Business Plan Competition’ under ‘Social Business Academic Conclave’, organized by Eastern University in collaboration with Yunus Center.
The participants are – Kanak Chandra Saha (29th Batch), Asif Akbar (29th Batch), Tanvir Ahmed (28th Batch) and Syeda Zubayra Zabeen (27th Batch). The team was mentored and supervised by Fahim Shaker, Senior Lecturer of Southeas...
Nestlé Bangladesh, in a press release, has reassured the Bangladeshi consumers that MAGGI noodles are safe to eat. The release said, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) collected samples of MAGGI instant noodles from the market as part of its regular market surveillance.
After examining the samples, BSTI confirmed MAGGI instant noodles are safe for consumption. MAGGI instant noodles are fully compliant with BSTI standards for Instant Noodles as well as International CODEX standards. Nestlé Bangladesh is reassuring Bangladeshi...
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) doubted that the lion part of the target of the revenue earnings projected in the proposed national budget for 2015-16 fiscal may not be achieved.
The think-tank voiced its doubt on Friday at a media briefing organized at capital’s BRAC Centre Inn to give its formal reaction to the national budget placed in parliament on Thursday for the 20105-16 fiscal.
At the briefing, economist and CPD’s distinguished fellow Debapriya Bhattachariya made their presentation on the budget. CPD executive director Mostafizur Rahman placed the welcome speech.
The CPD also thinks that turning the dream the finance minister dreamt in the proposed budget of breaking free of 6 per cent GDP growth trajectory into reality would be difficult if the proposed revenue target...
The two countries spend the same proportion (1%) of their gross domestic product on healthcare, but India devotes more of its GDP (3%) to education tha...
