Productivity, better biz climate, trade facilitation key to face post graduation challenges

Speakers at a webinar on Monday laid emphasis on raising competitiveness by increasing productivity and reducing cost of production; improving business climate and trade facilitation system; upgrading hard and soft business infrastructure; encouraging linkage industries and establishment of special economic zones and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) park for smooth and sustainable graduation of Bangladesh from LDC status by 2026.They said, permanent graduation from the LDC status would be a recognition of real development of the country and the living standards of the people, though Bangladesh will face many challenges. The country has developed significant trade-related capacity and adaptability, even withdrawal of GSP by the US. The predictions of disaster of the RMG sector during the phasing out of Multifibre Arrangement through Agreement on textiles and clothing, was not true  as Bangladesh successfully steered clear of the Global financial crisis having little or n...

MBL holds training on preventing money laundering

Mercantile Bank Limited organized a virtual training on ‘Prevention of Money Laundering and Combating Financing against Terrorism’ recently. A total number of 100 officials from different branches of the bank attended the online program through two steps. Shamim Ahmed, DMD and CAMLCO of the bank inaugurated the virtual training. In his address Shamim Ahmed advised participating officers to be strictly compliant with the central bank guidelines in discharging their assi...

India’s 2nd richest Adani now country’s largest airport operator

Adani Airport Holdings Ltd, owned by the billionaire Gautam Adani, took over Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, the second busiest airport in India, in mid-July after completion of all form...

Flowers flourish Rajshahi man’s luck

Even after facing numerous interviews for a job, Jafor Alam, son of Juban Mollah of Nabinagar village under Lalpur upazila of Natore district failed to get a job. Being frustrated with seeking further jobs, he started to cultivate flowers on a commercial basis and finally established himself as a successful entrepreneur. Now, he has employed more than 100 poor women as workers in his garden.However, the continuing lockdown and the Corona pandemic are paying a huge toll on his flower business and now he has been forced to suspend the business. With him, many other entrepreneurs and workers dealing in flowers have turned completely jobless. Jafor Alam said he started his flower business by being inspired with the story of 'Adu Bhai' and said, Adu Bhai used to fail in the ex...

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Shamim shows vast potential

ESPNcricinfoShamim Hossain, in his second T20I, is under pressure. Three fruitless slogs in the 18th over later, Bangladesh need 25 off 15 balls. The game has wildly swung both ways until this point. Dion Myers had conceded just three off his first three balls; Sikandar Raza's move to bowl him seemed a gamble that could pay off.Shamim is possibly thinking of his dismissal in the second T20I after he gave Bangladesh hope through his 13-ball 29. Here he was again, in a situation that was even more tricky. There was a series to be won. He simply had to strike.And strike he did. He thumped Myers for three fours: a forehand smash through covers, a reverse bunt past a diving short third man and a fierce pull over midwicket. Then, he kept his head through Blessing Muzarabani's penultimate over to all but seal the contest. He then finished the game off by hitting the winning runs. He remained unbeaten on 31 off just 15 balls, hitting six fours, five of which came in the last three overs.The match had already started to turn in Bangladesh's favour during the third-wicket stand between Mahmudullah and Soumya Sarkar, but it needed a final push from the Mahmudullah-Hossain partnership, after Afif Hossain's dismissal."Riyad bhai told me that we can get ten an over if we can hit a six or a four every over," he said. "It will get us close to their target. I maintained my process during this situation."Soumya Sarkar, whose 68 set up Bangladesh's push towards the big chase, was impressed with Shamim's desire. "He played an important innings,&...

More incentive planned for expats

In the midst of the pandemic, when global economies are suffering, our expatriates are relentlessly providing oxygen to our country’s economy by sending remittances through legal channels.Now in...

Bad practices lead to leather sector decay

We think the government will take an initiative so that the amount of default loan in the country’s tannery sector will not rise further.As reported by this daily on Saturday, the total amount of default loan in the country’s tannery sect...

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