This year the competition will commence on October 4, with its first round that focuses on ‘Thriving in the New Normal’ with the help of Unilever’s purpose-led brands …
Bangladeshi start-up Cassetex wins global green business idea contest
A Bangladeshi team of three has bagged ClimateLaunchpad 2020, a leading global green business idea competition, for inventing a solar-powered battery swapping service for electric three-wheelers.
Huawei smartphone business is going down – reduces its workforce in Bangladesh
Huawei smartphone business is going down – reduces its workforce in Bangladesh. Smart Technologies now in charge of Huawei’s business in Bangladesh …
Why Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka is so watchable even when they aren’t playing
The negotiation Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were going to have a three-Test series starting in October, but that’s no longer going to happen. Why? Largely it’s because Sri Lanka’s health authorities …
Progress and Globalization in Bangladesh: The Tazreen Fashions Garment Factory Fire
The garment trade is at the forefront of the kind of industrial revolution that we are experiencing in Bangladesh today, which is why, if from the outside, we look like some Dickensian hellhole of …
Navies of India, Bangladesh to hold 3-day mega military exercise from Saturday
A wide spectrum of maritime drills and operations will be conducted as part of the annual ‘Bongosagar’ exercise whose first edition was held in October last year …
Huawei downsizes smartphone business workforce in Bangladesh
Huawei is downsizing the workforce of its smartphone business operations in Bangladesh. The company made the announcement earlier this week, stating that over seven of its eight staffers in the …
Chinese Vaccine Trial in Bangladesh: Sinovac now wants co-financing
The much-talked-about mass trial of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine in Bangladesh has become uncertain after drugmaker Sinovac Biotech Ltd asked the government to co-finance the initiative. Sinovac …
Bangladesh to add 12,607 government jobs to technical education sector
The government has set out to create 12,607 permanent posts at the technical schools and colleges and polytechnic institutes in order to expand vocational education in Bangladesh.
Blame game hampers Rohingya return to Myanmar
Rohingya refugees enter Bangladesh through Shah Porir Dwip island in Cox’s Bazar district on Sept. 30, 2017, after a brutal clampdown by Myanmar’s military. (Photo: Stephan Uttom/UCA News) Myanmar’s …