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31Aug
The British retail giant Debenhams filed for bankruptcy, which has about $69 million liabilities to its 35 Bangladeshi suppliers.
Bangladesh's apparel exporters are updating the list of orders cancelled by western buyers amid the Covid-19 pandemic, after the US government assured them assistance in realising dues from American buyers. The assurance came at a virtual meeting of the United States-Bangladesh Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum...
31Aug
Singer Bangladesh to merge with subsidiary to cut costs
Publicly listed Singer Bangladesh Ltd will merge with its non-listed subsidiary company, International Appliances Ltd, in order to curb costs by reducing corporate taxes. An official of Singer Bangladesh told The Business Standard that the merger will help reduce corporate taxes as non-listed companies must pay...
31Aug
UCB plans to launch new MFS company by Dec
Bangladesh's mobile financial service (MFS) sector is likely to get a big boost with the new foothold of an old market player to serve potential customers independently in paperless banking, company sources said. The United Commercial Bank Limited's (UCB) MFS wallets - U-Cash and U-pay -...
31Aug
The government plans for signing preferential trade agreements
The government plans to start negotiations with a dozen countries including US and Canada for signing preferential trade agreements to help boost the country's export earnings, officials said. Besides, necessary studies are on with aims to enter into talks for signing PTAs with Vietnam, Morocco and...
29Aug
10 more economic zones get the nod including one in Dinajpur & Sandwip
Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza) has approved setting up 10 more economic zones, taking the tally of such areas to 101, out of which work on 28 are currently underway. The new zones are Nawabganj Economic Zone, Nawabganj; Tangail Economic Zone, Bhuapur; Sapahar Economic Zone, Sapahar,...
28Aug
Rahman’s Chambers was recommended by asialaw in 2020
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28Aug
We now have full set of Complete Digest of Supreme Court cases of India
We now have print version of original full set of Complete Digest of Supreme Court cases of India. Law reports are the engine room of legal development. They present the state of the law and not what law ought to be as shown in journals. Online research tools...
28Aug
DPDC faces delay in project implementation
Chinese engineers and workers could not return to Bangladesh from their homeland causing delay in a top priority project of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) due to COVID-19. According to official sources, the DPDC undertook a Power Distribution System upgrading project to improve its network...
28Aug