Economic activity in Bangladesh has recovered more strongly than expected with both exports and remittances growing in recent months amid the Covid-19 pandemic, said a new report of Asian Development Bank (ADB). But the country still has external risks to face as Covid-19 outbreaks renew in major export destinations, according to the new growth...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today suggested further integrating economies of Bangladesh and India to consolidate the global and regional value chains cashing on the available synergies. “I believe both our countries can move up the global and regional value chains by further integrating our economies taking advantage of available synergi...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to the countrymen to stay firm on non-communal spirit of the War of Liberation, saying people of all religious faiths will live in the country with equal right. “All people in combine have made the country independent in exchange of their blood . . . Freedom of pract...
There is a saying, 'Magician's task is to make the impossible possible'. The story of the current government's digital platform is much the same. When, in 2009, Bangladesh Awami League pledged to build 'Digital Bangladesh', oppositions and a segment of civil society laughed it away labeling it as 'Old Wive's Tale'. But today, Bangladesh, the cha...
The UNESCO Executive Board has unanimously adopted a proposal for the establishment of UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Award in the field of the creative economy. The prize will be awarded to global initiatives of youth in the field of creative economy. The proposal was adopted at the plenary of the virtual se...