October 29, 2008 by
Worried by high growth in credit to non-productive sectors, the Bangladesh’s central bank in a policy shift will ask commercial banks for lending the sectors that generate employment, farm and industrial output, as reported by Bangladesh media sources.
Bangladesh Bank…
October 06, 2008 by
Bangladesh has sold mobile phone spectrum to three of the country’s mobile phone operators for a total of 14 billion taka (US$204 million) to help expand their network, the telecoms regulatory authority said.
The three companies - Grameenphone, Egyptian Orascom…
October 01, 2008 by
World Bank (WB) has pledged a first phase donation of $100 million to assist Bangladesh in implementing the current fiscal budget, a WB official said yesterday.
This first phase assistance will be provided for the government’s food security programmes for…
September 22, 2008 by
The Bangladeshi government appears to go for re-tendering for setting up the proposed 450 MW Bibiyana power plant due to poor response from the pre-qualified bidders.
Among the three qualified bidders, only the Malaysia-based Powertek Berhad has shown her solid…
September 18, 2008 by
The Rome summit of the FAO and the Tokyo summit of the G-8 on tackling the ongoing world-wide food crisis are signs of the desperation nations are faced with. Indeed, the world is gripped by a new face of catastrophe,…
September 04, 2008 by
Bangladeshi Commerce Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman, now on a visit to Turkey, has invited Turkish investment in the revival of Bangladesh's jute industry currently underway. He also listed the facilities his country offers for the foreign investors, which include cheap…
August 25, 2008 by
How much subsidy Bangladesh government needs to pay during the current season of cultivation, when the global market price of Urea [Prilled or Granular] is between US$ 800-860? If the government has to ensure supplying Urea to the farmers at…
August 20, 2008 by
Adviser for Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment of Bangladesh, Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury expressed the hope that employment of Bangladeshis abroad would exceed 9,000,000 this year if the present trend continues.
“This will be an all-time record,…
August 09, 2008 by
The Department of Immigration and Passport of Bangladesh (DIP) could start issuing machine-readable passports and visas from July next year as a Tk 560 crore fresh project for this purpose has been included in the Annual Development Programme of 2008-2009.…
July 22, 2008 by
World Bank (WB) has pledged a first phase donation of $100 million to assist Bangladesh in implementing the current fiscal budget, a WB official said yesterday.
This first phase assistance will be provided for the government’s food security programmes for…
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