PRNewswire/ — VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON) and (Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), through VEON Ventures, has joined Sequoia Capital India and Flourish Ventures …
Bangladesh garment workers pray for orders as pandemic shreds exports
Bangladesh garment factory owner Shahidullah Azim laid off 20% of his workers in the wake of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Bangladesh is the world’s second-largest apparel producer after …
As Bangladesh Races Ahead, India Will Take ‘Years To Recover’ From Economic Contraction
When the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) biannual World Economic Outlook report was published last week, Shamsul Alam, a senior member of the Bangladesh Planning Commission, was busy overlooking …
Teknaf: The most violent place in Bangladesh?
An unofficial analysis by the UNDP finds that the volume of extrajudicial killings is extraordinarily high in Teknaf …
ShopUp raises $22.5 million to digitize millions of mom-and-pop shops in Bangladesh
A startup that is aiming to digitize millions of neighborhood stores in Bangladesh just raised the country’s largest Series A financing round. Dhaka-headquartered ShopUp said on Tuesday it has raised …
Bangladesh to overtake India? PR can’t fix all our problems
This week has come news that in the current financial year, Bangladesh will overtake India in terms of per capita income.
OP-ED: Which WTO chief candidate should Bangladesh support?
Bangladesh has good reason to want the World Trade Organization to be a successful institution, which helps the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) to grow their economies. Last year, members of …
Not just per capita GDP, Bangladesh outpaces India on key social indicators too
Bangladesh has made substantial progress in several social indicators, including education, sanitation and health.
Lack of finance forces Bangladesh to consider shelving coal
Chinese and Japanese investors have lost interest in funding coal projects due to high costs, pushing the country towards natural gas – which will do little to solve problems of overcapacity, expensiv …
To tackle sexual violence in Bangladesh the culture of victim blaming must end
There are still those who ask ‘what was she wearing’. An urgent conversation is needed about toxic masculinity and consent …