BSS: Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) industry has received huge response from international buyers by participating in a mega exposition in Canada. A total of 17 RMG factories and exporters from Bangladesh participated in the three-day event titled “Apparel Textile Sourcing Canada (ATSC)”. The fair was held at International Center in Toronto, Canada from August 20…
Hossen Sohel: Mexico said Thursday it had received an offer from the United States of payment to deport migrants, but denied it had accepted the deal, reports SABC News The statement followed reports that President Donald Trump’s administration planned to send Mexico $20 million to deport undocumented Central Americans crossing its territory toward the United…
Desk Report: A full bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Sonargaon Economic Zone’s Managing Director Md Noor Ali to refrain from sand and earth filling of farmlands and wetlands around Meghna river in six moujas in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon. Reports the daily star The apex court also ordered the deputy…
Desk Report Mitt Romney said on Friday that he would vote for U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in the presidential nominating contest in Utah. He however did not officially endorse the candidate. He also told voters to deny the nomination to Donald Trump according to reports from Reuters. Romney had little praise for Cruz, and…
UNB, Dhaka Brac chairman Fazle Hasan Abed on Friday said giving the urban people a meaningful life would be a big challenge for Bangladesh as it will have 50 percent of population living in towns within next 35 years. “In the next 30 years, population of Bangladesh is likely to be around 200 millions. It…
Samiul Bashar Samin A smile is more than baring teeth”, sings St Vincent on ‘Every Tear Disappears’. But you can spin that sentiment backwards, too: the baring of teeth doesn’t necessarily imply a smile, and in St Vincent’s case, it could mean something altogether more menacing. ‘St Vincent’ is her fourth solo album, coming on…
DOT Desk A China-led consortium is set to build Dhaka bypass as the country’s first toll expressway with high-tech road facilities under public-private partnership, reports The Financial EXpress. Officials claimed the first-ever real-time PPP project followed the PPP guideline, including design and selection of concessionaire under the PPP Authority. Although projects like Dhaka Elevated Expressway…
DOT Desk: Once a housewife struggling to make ends meet, Khursheda Begum Khushi has now become a shining example of self-employment in her locality in Jamalpur, reports The Daily Star. The 45-year-old runs her boutique “Khushi Basralay” at Tomal tola, making a profit of around Tk 25,000 per month. Her road to success, however, was…
NY Times: Typhoon Mangkhut struck the Philippines early Saturday, after tens of thousands of people evacuated their homes to escape the 550-mile-wide storm as it roared across the Pacific. More than 12 hours after landfall, at least three deaths were reported, but there were no signs of the kind of devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan…
UNB: Both the homegrown and imported onions are getting pricey ahead of Eid-ul-Azha despite the fact that government allowed a duty free import of Indian onion. Market sources blamed lax monitoring for sudden such surge in onion prices. The Indian onion is being sold in local markets at Tk 35 per kilogram while the local…