Intertek, a leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, has inaugurated a comprehensive leather and footwear testing facility in Bangladesh to support the leather, footwear and leather goods industries in South Asia.
The leather and footwear testing lab will be housed in Intertek’s Tejgaon, Dhaka, location, which opened last year and is the largest Softlines testing lab in Asia. The new leather and footwear testing capabilities provide additional quality and safety assurance solutions f
or the leather, footwear and leather goods i...
Top diplomats of the Dhaka missions of European Union (EU) member states on Wednesday discussed difficulties to develop trade and investment in Bangladesh.
They raised the issues of businesses at the newly established European Union Business Council Bangladesh, which held its first meeting in Dhaka on Wednesday, according to an official press release.
The concerns and suggestions of the council will be shared with government representatives at the meeting of the trade sub-group of the EU-Bangladesh Joint Commission scheduled to be in Dhaka on 27 February.
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Md. Fazlul Karim has been promoted as Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL). Prior to his new assignment he was positioned as Executive Vice President of the Bank.
Md. Fazlul Karim started his career as a banker in 1983 by joining Bangladesh Krishi Bank as Probationary Officer. In 1984, he joined Agrani Bank as Assistant Engineer (Senior Office).
He gathered experience working in International Division, Personnel Division and other important Divis...
The 12th Dhaka International Textile and Garments Machinery Exhibition started on Wednesday (February 4) to be continued till 7th February, 2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka.
In the press conference, Mr. Tapan Chowdhury, President of the Association announced that about 880 Machine Manufacturing Companies from 33 Countries will attend this Fair.
The fair will be open for visitors from 12 PM to 8 PM every day of the session.
FOR the past month Bangladesh, a country of nearly 160m people, has (yet again) been paralysed. The opposition leader, Khaleda Zia, has been confined to a party office in the capital, Dhaka. Her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been staging a nationwide blockade of roads, railways and waterways. The trigger for the unrest was a banned protest to mark the anniversary on January 5th of last year’s election, in which the incumbent Awami League, led by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was re-elected easily thanks to an opposition boycott. Nearly 50 people have been killed and more than 10,000 opposition activists arrested. BNP leaders are mostly in jail, in exile or in hiding, and face criminal charges that will probably bar them from running in the next election. This week events a...
Kuwait Ambassador to Dhaka Ali Ahmad Ebraheem Al-Dafairi today said his country was considering a proposal from Dhaka to carryout feasibility studies to install a petroleum refinery in Bangladesh.
“The matter is under process,” a foreign office statement quoted the envoy as saying as he called on Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at his office here.
It said Dafairi’s comment came as the minister referred to the issue of the earlier-proposed feasibility study for the refinery.
The statement said they discu...
