Though “everything but arms” has defined Bangladesh’s core export policy for the past 30 years, the Bangladesh Ordnance Factories (BOF) now hopes to change that.
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A police officer mans an armoured car gun-mount in Dhaka in March 2013. Bangladesh is now taking steps toward exporting arms for the first time in 30 years. [Munir uz Zaman/AFP][/caption]The state-owned weapons manufacturer, part of the Ministry of Defence, seeks governmental clearance to sell its line of munitions abroad. If granted, Ban...
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated 2014 Bangladesh's rice imports to nearly triple to about 400,000 tons due to lower prices in international market. The FAO reports that most of the imports are by the private sector.
The FAO estimates 2014 aggregate paddy rice production from the three seasons - Aus, Aman and Boro - at 52 million tons (around 34.84 million tons basis milled), slightly above an estimated 2013 paddy rice production of 51.5 million tons (around 34.5 million tons...
The Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development (BFTD) and Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh (ATAB) in collaboration with the Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism, Bangladesh Tourism Board, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh Inbound Tour Operators Association, Bangladesh International Hotel Association, and FBCCI will be organizing its annual country’s biggest & prestigious international travel and tourism event, the 4th Bangladesh International Tourism Fair (BITF) 2014 from June 19-21, 2014 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC), Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.
The event will be inaugurated by the Honorable Minister for Civil Aviation & Tourism Mr. Rashed Khan Menon MP on June 19, 2014 at 4.30 p m. while Mr. K...
International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB) organized a Stakeholders Meeting on Developing Satellite City under Public Private Partnership (PPP) on Thursday (29th of May 2014) at its Banani Office in the city. The meeting was presided over by the Mr. Hafizur Rahman Khan, President of IBFB and moderated by Mr. Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury, Founding President of IBFB where Mr. Suhel Ahmed Chowdhury, former Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Public Works, Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Commerce presented the Keynote Paper.
The m...
The government and retailers have largely failed to make public the findings of factory safety inspections ordered after the April 2013 Rana Plaza catastrophe that killed and injured several thousand workers, said Human Rights Watch.
Reports should be published in Bangla as well as English so that they are accessible to workers.
More than 1,100 workers died after they were persuaded, and in some case
s forced, by their employers to return to Rana Plaza a day after they evacuated because large cracks appeared in the building's walls. As a result of the tragedy, the Bangladesh government and western ret...
The government will set up 21 more border outposts (BOPs) along the boundary with India's northeastern states to check movement of terrorists and smuggling of contraband and drugs, an official said here Tuesday.
"The proposed 21 BOPs would be set up along India-Bangladesh borders with Tripura and Mizoram to curb the cross-border movement of militants and smuggling of goods and drugs," a top security official told IANS.
He said: "The insurgents of northeast India and smugglers have been using the Tripura-Mizoram-Bangladesh borders as their safe...
A police officer mans an armoured car gun-mount in Dhaka in March 2013. Bangladesh is now taking steps toward exporting arms for the first time in 30 years. [Munir uz Zaman/AFP][/caption]The state-owned weapons manufacturer, part of the Ministry of Defence, seeks governmental clearance to sell its line of munitions abroad. If granted, Ban...
