Bangladesh tops tourists arrival chart in India
Bangladesh has topped the tourists arrival chart in India, followed by the US and the UK. According to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Tourism, 7,32,105 Bangladeshis visited India in September 2014, which is 14.79 per cent of the total foreign tourist arrivals of 4.95 lakh in September. It is followed by the US (11.88 per cent) and the UK (8.33 per cent)
In the past two years, tourists arrival from Bangladesh is on the rise. In 2012, about 4,87,397 tourists visited India and it rose to 5,24,923 in 2013. In both these years Bangladesh was third in the list of source countries for foreign tourist arrivals to India consisting of 7.41 and 7.63 per cent respectively. During the period, the US and the UK topped the chart.
bKash Bangladesh: What explains its fast start
Bangladesh is the heartland of a four decades old microfinance industry. CGAP’s 2013 research indicated that nearly any household that wants a microfinance loan could get one. At the same time, basic mobile payments and savings accounts have spread like wildfire since first introduced three years ago.
The fastest growing provider (by far) is bKash, a specialised company in Bangladesh focused on mass market mobile financial services. Launched in July 2011, bKash reached 11 million accounts by the end of 2013, just 30 months after launch. This ha...
The fastest growing provider (by far) is bKash, a specialised company in Bangladesh focused on mass market mobile financial services. Launched in July 2011, bKash reached 11 million accounts by the end of 2013, just 30 months after launch. This ha...
Nearly 1,700 RMG factories inspected
Two big groups of retailers and apparel brands have completed a major step toward advancing garment-factory safety in Bangladesh: They have finished inspecting nearly 1,700 factories in that country.
A European-dominated group — the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, with 189 corporate members, including H&M and Carrefour — said on Tuesday that it had found more than 80,000 safety problems in the 1,106 factories it inspected.
The other — an American-dominated group, the Alliance...
The other — an American-dominated group, the Alliance...
BD-US partnership dialogue postponed
The third partnership dialogue between Bangladesh and the US has been postponed due to conflicting schedule.
The dialogue, between Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and his US counterpart Wendy Sherman, was supposed to 0be held in Washington, DC on October 21-22, reports the Dhaka Tribune.
“We are working on finding a new date,” the foreign secretary told the Dhaka Tribune.
Shahidul will accompany Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the Asia Europe Meeting to be held from October 16 and 17, and he will attend the Compact Review meeti...
Shahidul will accompany Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the Asia Europe Meeting to be held from October 16 and 17, and he will attend the Compact Review meeti...
India-Bangladesh projects in Tripura making rapid progress
A number of infrastructure and development projects have been jointly undertaken by India and Bangladesh in Tripura. Recently, the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka was in Tripura to review the progress made in the entire proposed Indo-Bangla projects.
During his three-day visit to the state, Indian Deputy High commissioner in Dhaka Sandeep Chakravorty met ministers and top officials and took stock of the progress of various India-Bangladesh projects.
Following the meeting with Power Minister Manik Dey, Chakravorty revealed that the work for supply of 100 MW power from Tripura’s Palatana power project to Bangladesh is progressing fast.
