The Cotton Textiles Exports Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL) has welcomed the inclusion of exports of cotton fabrics – both woven and knitted - to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) vide Public Notice No. 27 dated July 14, 2015 issued by the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT).
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R.K.Dalmia – Chairman – TEXPROCIL[/caption]
This is a very positive step taken by the Governm...
The Ministry of Labor has not imposed any ban on recruitment of Bangladeshi workers according to Taiseer Al-Mufarraj spokesman of the ministry.
He told an online newspaper that Bangladesh has expressed its readiness to send housemaids to
the Kingdom. ‘The work to bring workers is continuing and many Bangladeshi women workers reached the Kingdom during Ramadan through various manpower agencies.’
It is expected that the number of Bangladeshi laborers coming to the Kingdom will increase as many manpower agencies...
For 70 years, World War II planes have been resting in peace at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Although divers have enjoyed exploring the underwater graveyard since the 1960s, Brandi Mueller's photos allow us to admire these treasures without a wetsuit.
"I find diving [to see] the airplanes really exciting," Mueller, a scuba diving instructor and boat captain, told Mashable. "It's a strange thing to see airplanes underwater. Shipwrecks you expect, but not airplanes."
The planes didn't actually crash at this particular location near the Marshall Islands, though. They were discarded there after WWII because it was too expensive to transport them back to the United States from the Kwajalein Atoll, according to Mueller.
The site includes Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, F4U Co...
There appears to be no end to the problems surrounding the shortage of foreign maids in Malaysia. Currently, there are some 150,000 foreign domestic helpers working legally in this country, most of them Indonesians and Filipinas.
With the two source nations – Indonesia and the Philippines – having declared their intentions to cease supplying maids to Malaysia, it is high time the government weaned itself off its dependence on those two countries.
With Malaysians generally shunning employment in the domestic help sector, the g...
Tea prices in Bangladesh edged down at the weekly auction on Tuesday, snapping a two-week run of gains, on higher supplies and tepid demand from local buyers ahead of the Muslim festival, brokers said.
Bangladeshi tea fetched an average 198.97 taka ($2.5) per kg at the auction, the 11
th of the new marketing season, compared with 199.33 taka at the previous sale, an executive with National Brokers said.
“There was less demand from local buyers ahead of the Eid holidays,” he said referring to the Eid al-Fitr celebrations, due on Saturday on sightin...
Bangladesh remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Poverty is widespread throughout and GDP is extremely low, despite it being the eighth most populous country on earth. Frequent large scale flooding also remains a constant threat.
Government funding is low and the country continues to rely on international aid. An unstable political environment tarnished by corruption has made healthcare reform somewhat of an afterthought.
There is a marked disparity in the standard of healthcare between rural and urban areas. ...
