The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has awarded four of its best performing project/program teams in Bangladesh as part of its efforts to promote efficient project implementation. Kazuhiko Higuchi, country director of the ADB Bangladesh Resident Mission, presented the awards for the year 2014 to the winning teams at a ceremony in Dhaka on Sunday, reports Xinhua. The winning project teams are Sustainable Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project executed by the Local Government Engineering Department, City Region Development Project also executed by ...

Whenever my casual acquaintances learn about my business engagements and frequent travels to Bangladesh, they quickly make an astonishing statement, “All our garment factories have migrated to Bangladesh because there is no electricity or gas here”. It’s not phrased as a question requiring my confirmation. It doesn’t sound as a matter of fact either. No one quotes authentic data recorded by The Economist or The Financial Times in their claims support; or give actual numbers of factories that have migrated. Invariably, these declarations are...

The UK permanent secretary for the Department for International Development (DFID), Mark Lowcock, has arrived in Dhaka on Sunday, to check the progress of UK aid’s contribution to growth and poverty reduction in order to help the people of Bangladesh. This is Mark Lowcock’s second visit to Bangladesh with the last time being in 2011. During his stay Mark will meet a variety of people which includes senior government officials, partners, beneficiaries, youth leaders and members of the international and business commun...

A government adviser on Saturday asked the chief of Bangladesh police to identify the officers who failed to act when Avijit Roy, an atheist American blogger, was attacked and killed last month in Dhaka. “Identify the black sheep among the force and bring them under law and justice to uphold your image,” said HT Imam, political adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Imam directed the remarks to Shahidul Hoque, the inspector general of Bangladesh police, while addressing a meeting at Dhaka University on ...

About 100 workers were feared trapped on Thursday when a cement factory collapsed in Mongla in Bagerhat district, told a police official. Four people were confirmed dead. Rescuers also pulled about 40 survivors from the debris after the factory, run by a subsidiary of the Bangladesh army, collapsed in the port town of Mongla, 335 km (210 miles) southwest of the capital, Dhaka. "There were about 150 people, including workers, inside the factory building when it collapsed," said Belayet Hossain, the officer in charge of the Mongla...

The Mandatory Jute Packaging Act 2010 that made the use of jute bags in packing food stuff and farm produces mandatory to help the jute millers and growers could not be enforced properly even after five years of its enactment. Enacted in 2010, the rules of the law were formulated by Textiles and Jute Ministry in 2013 that clearly mentioned that all the traders as well as the government organisations concerned should use jute bags while packing trading paddy, pulses, wheat, fertilizer and sugar, reports UNB. However, traders and millers ...