Investment in technology is need of the hour to make the country’s apparel industry more competitive, sustainable and profitable, and also to achieve the target of earning the goal of US$50 billion in fashion exports by 2021.
Besides, infrastructure bottle necks and capacity constraints, which are the threat to prosperity, needs to be removed to attract more investment in industry, the life blood of the country’s economy.
The observations came after an intense brainstorming panel discussion at a seminar on “Bastra Shilper Adhunikayan (Modernization of Apparel Industry)” by ThreadSol, an innovative apparel software solutions provider in partnership with Independent TV, a leading private television channel, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the city.
The objective of the seminar is to...
Bikroy, the largest marketplace in Bangladesh had introduced an exclusive Qurbani offer for their online shoppers. The campaign was to make this Eid more vibrant with our country’s famous “Mir Kadim” and “Chennai Express” cows. These animals have been fed with only the best organic feed, raised in humane and hygienic conditions and are guaranteed growth hormone-free. This was a month long campaign where buyers needed to visit http://www.bikroy.com/qurbani and then selected their desired animal. This offer has availed the lucky buyers to purchase their intended animals at 70% discount.
Bikroy will also be bringing other great offers during this QurbaniEid, including thousands of quality animals from Bikroy Members, costing from 30,000 BDT up to 20 lac BDT, as well as butchering and tr...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus will be among those speaking at the three-day Pangkor International Development Dialogue (PIDD) beginning Monday.
In his keynote address, Muhammad Yunus will be speaking on social business and how it can be a tool to narrow income gaps and address poverty and unemployment.
"Every country and state should achieve three zeroes - zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero carbon emission.

"And all this can be done through social businesses," said the founder of the Gra...