Bangladesh Bank has expressed its total ignorance of bringing back any money siphoned off by corrupt politicians and businessmen during the previous BNP-Jamaat coalition government.
A defamation case was filed on Tuesday against the top four officials of the Daily Ittefaq including one of the owners Mainul Hosein and editor Rahat Khan. Two businessmen, Shawkat Ali Khan Bipul and Haider Ali Khan Bulbul, also brothers, filed the case with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in the morning.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has urged traders and businessmen not to make people suffer during the Ramadan, an aide said on Monday.
Economists and businessmen said yesterday that disruptive gas and power supplies, lack of logistic and infrastructure supports as well as extortion are mainly discouraging the private sector from investing in the country.
Taiwan has eased restrictions on visa applications for businessmen from Bangladesh, China's Central News Agency reported on Sunday. "After review, we have decided to ease the restrictions on business applicants from Iran, Iraq and Bangladesh," said Lo Yu-chung, director-general of Taiwan's Bureau of Consular Affairs.
The group of businessmen who comprised 73 percent of the beneficiaries of money whitening scope given by the last caretaker government will again get the larger slice of the cake as the government has decided to continue the provision for one year.
Businessmen at Bashun-dhara City Shopping Complex fear significant fall in number of customers the luxurious mall used to attract everyday before Friday’s devastating fire that killed at least seven people and burned all offices housed in top floors.
An obvious trauma gripped the businesses at Basundhara City after a devastating fire Friday burnt many shops and offices into ashes inside the country’s biggest and iconic shopping centre.
The trade body for readymade garment sector has demanded a government financial support package for the survival of the industry, as foreign buyers now offer at least 17 percent less price for Bangladesh's RMG products because of the ongoing global recession.
BGMEA President Anwa-Ul-Alam Chowdhury Parvez raised this demand at an impromptu press conference in Dhaka yesterday.
প্রথমআলো: আওয়ামী লীগের সভানেত্রী শেখ হাসিনা দ্রুত কাজ পেতে রাজনীতিবিদদের আর চাঁদা ও ঘুষ না দেওয়ার জন্য ব্যবসায়ীদের প্রতি আহ্বান জানিয়েছেন। ব্যবসায়ীদের উদ্দেশ্যে তিনি বলেন, কাজ তাড়াতাড়ি পাওয়ার জন্য আপনারা চাঁদা ও ঘুষ দেন। আপনারাই আবার বলেন, রাজনীতিকেরা চাঁদাবাজ ও ঘুষখোর। আপনারা ঘুষ, চাঁদা দেওয়ার সংস্কৃতি বন্ধ করুন, তাহলে আর কেউ চাইবে না।
