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PIA BD flight operations stop till March 10

Pakistan International Airlines suspended flights operations to Bangladesh on Friday till March 10, owing to harassment of crew and passengers by Bangladeshi security agencies. pia“We have suspended flight operations to Bangladesh till March 10,” a PIA spokesperson said, according to Express News. Citing harassment of PIA crew and passengers as the reason for suspension, the spokesperson added: “The protest will continue till action is taken.” On Thursday, Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said they have contacted the Bangladesh High Comm...

‘Indo-Bangla rail project to suffer due to lack of funds’

Criticising the railway budget, Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey said Friday that the India-Bangladesh railway project will suffer due to lack of funds. “Due to lack of funds, the land acquisition for the India-Bangladesh bd-indiarailway project connecting Tripura would be delayed. The new railway project will also suffer,” Dey told reporters here. He said: “In the railway budget (for 2015-16), there was no fund allocated for land acquisition. We want the early completion of the vital railway project.” The minister said the total cost of the pr...

BD blank T-shirt maker serves US market

Keya, a Bangladesh-based producer of 100-percent cotton T-shirts and other knit apparel,is finding success in the U.S. market by using a North Carolina beachhead as its distribution point. Keya USA is growing as it penetrates markets for products for advertising specialty and screen-printing markets. Keya is the largest producer of knitted apparel in Dhaka, Bangladesh, producing more than 8 million dozen garments annually and employing 11,000 workers. T-shirtGreg Brown, senior vice president of sales and operations for Keya USA, says the key to...

Western cos agree to resume business with BD RMG

After weeks of negotiations, Western companies have agreed to resume business with a Bangladeshi apparel maker on the condition that it would bargain with, and cease beating, union leaders. rmgLate last year, as reported by Steven Greenhouse and Hiroko Tabuchi in the New York Times, closed-circuit camera footage emerged of a female union leader being swarmed and assaulted, only three months after a female union president was severely beaten over the head with an iron rod. Both incidents occurred at factories owned by the Azim Group, which reports employi...

Investing in future talent

We’ve all read plenty of stories predicting the future of the oil industry, with endless questions like: What will the oil price be in six months? Will we receive a tax cut as an industry in the imminent budget announcement? When Will OPEC reduce production to reduce the surplus supply of oil and gas? oil_drops_MSo it may seem strange timing to talk about recruitment and investing in the future with universal cuts – but this is key to securing the industry for generations to come. The most frustrating factor of these unanswered questi...

US calls for due process, room for political opposition

The United States (US) hopes due process will be followed after an anti-corruption court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants for former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia, the top US diplomat for South Asia said on Thursday. [caption id="attachment_13359" align="alignleft" width="300"]File photo of BNP Chairperson Khaleda waving to activists as she arrives for a rally in Dhaka Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia waves to activists as she arrives for a rally in Dhaka in this January 20, 2014 file photo. ...
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