UK businessmen keen to invest in Bangladesh

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said businessmen of the United Kingdom (UK) are keen to invest in social welfare-oriented digital platform in Bangladesh.The state minister said this at a press conference after his meeting with a 24-member UK delegation, including some businessmen, at his Bangladesh Secretariat office on Wednesday.Palak said the British delegation wanted to know about the facilities being provided for the foreign investors here.“During the meeting, I highlighted before them about the advancement of ‘Digital Bangladesh’ in last 10 years and different initiatives and facilities for the foreign investors,” he added.Palak informed that some British companies in the meantime have invested in Kaliakoir Hi-tech Park, the first ever hi-tech park at in Gazipur district.He said British investment would increase further in some 28 under-construction Hi-tech or IT parks, including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib ...

Mutual Trust Bank introduces commercial space finance

BP Business DeskMutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB), for the first time, launched Commercial Space Finance on Tuesday at the Samson H. Chowdhury auditorium, MTB Tower in the cpaital. Commercial Space Finance is a term loan product for the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME). Customers can use the loan product to purchase commercial space for business expansion, construct commercial space, renovate and face upliftment of commercial space, and takeover of commercial space financing from other finan...

182 businessmen get CIP cards

The government has awarded the Commercially Important Person (CIP) cards to 182 businessmen for their extraordinary performance in export in 2017.Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing C...

‘Buy products seeing logo’

Director General of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI)  Md Muazzem Hossain urges people to buy products after seeing their logo on that item, says a press release. We are the real authority to supervise any product's standard as well as to give approve certificates in favor of 181 products that government determined. He said this while addressing a discussion with the students of BG Press High School as a part of 'BSTI Study Tour' at the BSTI HQ in Tejgaon in the capital on Thursday. He also said it is BSTI's duty to ensure the standard of a product. BSTI is continuing this effort. However, recently BSTI launches study tour programme among the students. The programme will continuing....

PM receives treatment at NIOH

Aminul Islam, the latest in a long line of surprise picks

Desperate to find a winning formula, Bangladesh have turned to two debutants for their last two group-stage matches of the T20I tri-series at home: Aminul Islam, a young batsman who bowls a bit of legspin, and Najmul Hossain, a left-hand top-order batsman. Najmul is not a new face, having played two Tests and three ODIs, but 19-year-old Aminul is a surprise pick. He played in the 2018 Under-19 World Cup and couple of seasons in the Dhaka Premier League before the selectors noticed him bowling in the nets for the high-performance squad and were impressed. Aminul hasn't even made his Bangladesh Premier League debut; but such bolts from the blue are not new in Bangladesh cricket. Here's a look at some of them, report cricinfo.Mahmudur Rahman (formerly known as Ranjan Das)Mahmudur, a left-arm medium pacer, was part of Bangladesh's first Test XI. He picked up one wicket in that game against India in Dhaka, but never played for Bangladesh again. That match, interestingly, was only his second in first-class cricket, although he did turn out for the Under-19 and 'A' sides in the 12 months leading up to it. He was talked up by his coach Dipu Roy Chowdhury, a former Bangladesh player, but the emergence of the steadier and fitter Manjurul Islam put Mahmudur out of the reckoning, for good. He turned to left-arm spin in domestic cricket, before concentrating on his career as a banker.Mashrafe MortazaThe man who later became Bangladesh's captain - he's still their ODI skipper - is the country's most successful bolter. Mashrafe was the first cricketer this ...

Bank accounts for the ultra-poor

A government initiative to change the lives of people living below the poverty line has transformed the lives of many. In the district of Jhenaidah many have overcome poverty and have changed their li...

Pragmatic initiative to develop rural roads

We appreciate the government’s enthusiasm towards prioritising the country’s road and transportation sector in its development agenda. A good number of projects are being implemented in full swing to take our transport sector to the heigh...

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