Category: Trade

New Delhi: Craftspeople and crafts organisations from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan will come together with their Indian counterparts to showcase their techniques and products at Dastkar South Asian Bazaar.

Kolkata: Bengalis are willing to bend the law when it comes to sourcing hilsa fish, even if it comes at the cost of souring ties with its eastern neighbour, Bangladesh.

Visiting US Congressman Sander Levin on Tuesday stressed the responsibility of the US retailers in revamping Bangladesh’s RMG sector.  

India has assured Bangladesh of supplying 2 million bales of raw cotton every year irrespective of any restrictions on its export of the commodity in future.

The government has decided to import 5,000 tonnes of onion to stabilise the market.

Onion prices have reached a record high of Tk 80 a kilogram on the back of a supply crunch in Sylhet, the country’s main source of the vegetable.

Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has strongly condemned the surprise attack on AK Azad, former President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and the incumbent President of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries, in Faridpur on August 11.  

Agartala: Two more “border haats” (markets) will be set up this year along the India-Bangladesh border to boost local trade and people-to-people contacts between the two countries, a Tripura minister said Tuesday.

India-based Star Cement said it has dispatched its first barge of clinker to Bangladesh via river. The company is aiming to export over 50,000t of clinker to Bangladesh every month using the riverine route, the Meghalaya Times reported its President…

Tangail – At least 42 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at a market in Ghatail upazila of the district early Sunday.

The buyers crowded the shopping malls in the capital for clothes and other festival wears at the last moment of their Eid shopping.   

Caps with various eye-catching designs, made in Tentulia of Panchagarh district, are available at reasonable prices across the country.

Strikes and holidays—Shab-e-Qadr, Eid-ul-Fitr, National Morning Day, weekends– have crippled Benapole, Bangladesh’s largest land port.

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has reduced sugar price by Tk 1 per kg to sell at Tk 43 per kg now as its demand marked a rise further ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Eid-shopping has gained momentum in the shopping centers of upazilas and district town here as the holy Eid-ul- Fitr is knocking at the door.

With the holy Eid- ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, is coming nearer, the Eid-shopping has started gaining momentum in Netrakona district town day by day.

Eid shopping is gaining momentum in Narsingdi with the holy Eid-ul-Fir drawing nearer.

Instant hand wash is the first hand sanitiser that has been created in a small sachet for the mass population of Bangladesh. Sunday at Gulsan Agora Andre Cailleux CEO Agora, Twin Bay Ltd. Diractor Khawjehaki Ahsanullah jointly inaugurated the products…

Vice Chairman of Korea Importers Association (Koima) Hi-Hyun Kim has said they will request their 8000-member importers to import more products from Bangladesh, especially the RMG ones.

The wholesale rice price in Dhaka city markets fell marginally by 0.8 percent, down to Tk 30.4 per kg, in two weeks ending on July 11.

A DCCI-Japan liaison office was inaugurated in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday.

Today, 20 July 2013, East Way Fashion House has been inaugurated its 10th branch at Bikrampur Plaza, Juraine in Dhaka. Alhaz Nasim Ahmed Babu, Director of East Way Private Limited formally inaugurated this branch.

Stakeholders of the five-year project under Rural Employment and Road Maintenance Programme (RERMP) under Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) urged extension of the tenure of the project which came to an end on June 30.

The four-day-long hartal enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami since last Monday morning has created resentment and frustration among the mango growers, consumers, traders and transporters in the region.

Mobile Phone Operator Robi Axiata Limited, nation’s only Passive Infrastructure Company, Bangladesh Infrastructure Company Limited (BICL) and Nationwide Internet Service Provider Tomato Web (Pvt.) Limited have recently signed a Tripartite Agreement regarding Infrastructure Sharing. This is the 1st Agreement BICL…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 378 kilograms of hilsa fish worth Tk3.78 lakh from Bhomra border in Sadar upazila of the district early Wednesday.

Fakruddin Restaurant has offered various kinds of Iftar delicious menus on the occasion of the sacred month of Ramadan.

East Way Fashion House, which is set out with the slogan of “ the former speech in fashion” , inaugurated its 9th branch on the 10th July, 2013, Wednesday, at Banoshri in Dhaka. Alhaz Nasim Ahmed Babu, Director of East…

Women entrepreneurs of Rajshahi will be allotted commercial plots within next one month for setting up silk and boutique industries there.

Oil rose to near $105 a barrel Wednesday, driven by speculation that U.S. crude stockpiles fell last week in a sign of higher demand.