A devastating fire has gutted jute bag manufacturing factory Oporajeo, which was founded in 2013 in Savar with the injured workers of Rana Plaza.
The factory was founded under a trust on June 24, 2013 with six plain sewing machines and seven workers. Here the workers, mostly women, were labelled as owners.
They were given congenial working environment, profit share, free lunch, medical assistance and educational support for their children.
The factory having 50 workers used to manufacture different jute bags for local and international clients with...
Flydubai will launch direct flights to Sylhet, Bangladesh from April 1, the Dubai discount carrier said in statement on Thursday.
The service, which will start with five weekly flights and increase to daily flights from May 4, will be operated under a code-share agreement with Bangladesh’s Regent Airways. The Bangladesh airline put its flight code on the flydubai service, an airline spokesperson confirmed.
It is flydubai’s third service to Bangladesh.
Infrastructure major GMR India is to enter into an agreement with Bangladesh to export 500 MW electricity from two hydropower projects it is constructing in Nepal, according to officials here.
GMR has already signed an agreement with the Nepal government to build the 900-MW Upper Karnali project in western Nepal and is in the final stages of acquiring permission for constructing the 600-MW Upper Marsyangdi-II project in central Nepal.
An agreement for the export of power to Bangladesh will be signed during the three-day regional energy conference star...
Chancellor George Osborne is facing renewed calls to reform North Sea oil and gas taxation as experts warn of an economic “triple whammy” for the industry.
David Glen, head of tax at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Scotland, said there is a “real danger” plunging oil prices could result in investment becoming uneconomic, leading to diminishing field life and speeding up decommissioning.
The latest economic report from the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute, sponsored by PwC, joins calls for the Chancellor to take act...
Pakistan International Airlines suspended flights operations to Bangladesh on Friday till March 10, owing to harassment of crew and passengers by Bangladeshi security agencies.
“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...
Long-term goal is to secure, sustainable, competitive, affordable energy for all of Europe’s citizens while transitioning to a low-carbon, climate-friendly economy.
The European Commission today set out its strategy to achieve what it terms a “resilient Energy Union with a forward-looking climate change policy.”
The proposal sets out — in five interrelated policy dimensions — the goals of an energy union. The initiative also entails the detailed steps the Juncker Commission will take to achieve it, including: new legislation to redesign and overhaul the electricity market; ensuring more transparency in gas contracts; substantially developing regional cooperation as an important step towards an integrated market, with a stronger regulated framework; new legislation to ensure the su...
