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NCCI launches energy efficient 3E program

Experts underscored the need for reduction of CO2 emissions and minimize costs related to industrial energy consumption via energy efficiency engagement aimed at green transformation for ensuring environmentally sustainable economic growth. They were speaking at the launching ceremony of the Energy Efficiency Engagemimage001ent program of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bangladesh (NCCI). NCCI in collaboration with the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) through the Embassy of Denmark launched the Energy Efficiency...

Avijit got what he deserved: Farabi

Farabi-640Shafiur Rahman Farabi, prime suspect in the Avijit killing, has said during interrogation that the slain blogger-writer “has got what he deserved.” Although he claimed that he had nothing to do with the murder, Farabi praised the incident saying Avijit got the reward for mocking religion. Ziaul Ahsan, additional director general (ADG) of RAB, told these to the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. Earlier in the day, Rapid Action Battalion brought Farabi in front of reporters and said he had been nabbed from the capital’s Jatrabari around ...

Dhaka and Delhi to strengthen regional ties

ban-ind-300Bangladesh and India yesterday agreed to expand cooperation in the regional, sub-regional and international arenas. “The key message is to have a deeper friendship [with India]. We want cooperation, they also want cooperation,” Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque told reporters at a press conference at the ministry after his meeting with visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Dr S Jaishankar. Shahidul said the Indian side sought deeper regional and bilateral ties, although political issues were not discussed. “We are seeing a maj...

Obama: Iran should halt nuclear work for decade

obama]President Barack Obama has said Iran should agree to at least a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if a landmark deal is to be finally reached. Mr Obama also said the odds were still against such an agreement happening. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to oppose a deal in a speech to Congress on Tuesday. But the president said Mr Netanyahu had been wrong on Iran before, when he opposed an interim agreement last year. "Netanyahu made all sorts of claims - this was going to be a terrible deal, this was going to...

Remittance drops for second month

Money-RemittanceThe inflow of remittance into the country continued to fall in the last two consecutive months of January and February. The country received remittance worth US$1.17bn in February, dropped by 5% from $1.2bn in the previous month. However, the remittance amount received in February this year, was almost same in the corresponding period of last year, according to Bangladesh Bank data released yesterday. The expatriate Bangladeshis sent home $2.42bn as remittance in the first two months of this year, which was s...

DenimsandJeans.com Bangladesh show begins

A two-day long DenimsandJeans.com show begins today (March 1, 2015) at Hotel Radisson in Dhaka, aiming to help increase exports of denim apparel from Bangladesh. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Denim 3rd show Pic 1GmbH, which works with the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), is the technical partner of this event. Twenty-six companies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Germany, Turkey, Br...
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