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Online book trading gaining ground

Online book sale getting popularity in the country thanks to the people's wider access to Internet that helps them get desired titles at market prices, insiders said. They said although it is a new concept in book business, the platform is developing quickly in the country. At least five online portals, including rokomari.com and boi-mela.com, are now selling books online in Bangladesh. online car sale"Buyers can purchase books at the same discount what they usually get at traditional marketplace," said Mehdi Hasan Roni, mentor of rokomari...

Canada seeks to increase exports to Bangladesh

Canada is seeking to raise exports of cereals and other agricultural products to Bangladesh, especially from the prairie province of Saskatchewan. canada-bangladesh“We wish to increase our exports to Bangladesh,” Mortoza Tarafder, a director of Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership, said at a trade fair organised by Canada Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CanCham). He did not give a figure. Bangladesh is Canada’s third-largest pulse export market and a major market for wheat and canola. Agricultural commodities rep...

Big, positive step in inter-country Saarc travel

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), the eight-nation regional economic grouping which started its journey 30 years ago but failed to make much headway, has taken a big and positive step in promoting intra-regional travel. SAARCFour members of Saarc comprising Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are close to signing a deal allowing cross-border movement of motor vehicles. The four countries are Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan. The positive move will allow movement of vehicles thro...

5pc stock dividend of MAKSONSPIN

NO PRICE LIMIT TODAY FOR MAKSONSPIN There will be no price limit on the trading of the shares of the MAKSONSPIN today (15.02.2015) following its corporate declaration. dse cseThe Board of Directors of the company has recommended 5% stock dividend for the year ended on September 30, 2014. Date of AGM: 07.04.2015, Time: 9:30 AM, Venue: Maksons Group Conference Hall, Factory Premises of the Company, Gouripur, Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka (Subject to approval of BSEC). Record date: 26.02.2015. The Company has also reported EPS of Tk. 0.73, NAV per s...

$ 500m green fund for textile

The central bank will set aside $500 million of low-cost funds for textile factories to help them adopt eco-friendly technologies and practices, Governor Atiur Rahman said yesterday. The money will come in addition to the existing export development fund (EDF) of $1.5 billion and will be named Green EDF, he told a discussion at the office of Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh in Dhaka. Bangladesh BankPRI organised the discussion on “access to finance: environmental sustainability in the textile sector” in association with...

Malnutrition easing up

Only two in every hundred women in Bangladesh suffered from severe malnutrition in 2013, down from four a year ago, reveals a survey. The improvement in nutrition situation is largely due to a change in women’s dietary habits, says the study titled “State of Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh: 2013” released by Food Security Nutritional Surveillance Project (FSNSP). rohingya-children“The situation improved as they ate more protein foods,” said Zeba Mahmud, director of James P Grant School of Public Health at Brac Un...
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