A meeting attended by ministers, garment factory owners, workers and BGMEA leaders on Sunday decided to introduce trade union in the garment sector to deal with problems of the apparel industry.
Foreign minister Dipu Moni has said the government will "soon" sign a deal with India on sharing water of the common river Teesta over which Bangladesh has the largest irrigation project. She told journalists at a news briefing on Friday on her just-concluded India visit that Indian separatist ULFA leader Anup Chetia would not be handed over to India as per an extradition treaty the government was going to sign with New Delhi.
The cabinet committee on purchase yesterday approved a proposal of the power division to set up a 150 megawatt (MW) simple cycle gas turbine power plant at Kumargaon in Sylhet at a cost of Tk 704.52 crore (equivalent to US$ 101.5 million) to meet the growing demand of electricity in the eastern region of the country.
The government is planning to appoint 50 more judges to the High Court (HC) Division and a few judges to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) to deal with a huge backlog of cases.
The Election Commission may decide today the next course of action on registered political parties' probable failure to comply with the law and their own pledges to submit ratified party constitutions to the commission by July 25. A meeting of the EC will be held today on the matter upon Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda's return from abroad.
Warid Telecom signed an agreement with interconnection exchange (ICX) operator M&H Telecom for routing domestic inter-operator and international calls to and from Warid Telecom network. on June 9.
Grameenphone Ltd. signed a partnership agreement with the Teachers Students Centre (TSC) of Dhaka University (DU), the university cultural hub, for the beautification, modernisation and maintenance of TSC Cafeteria and the surrounding areas, among others.
Director of TSC of Dhaka University and Grameenphone
Head of Marketing Rubaba Dowla signed a partnership deal on
behalf of their respective organisations at the TSC
yesterday.
Banglar Chokh
Oracle Corp. last month officially closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of middleware and tools vendor BEA Systems. Since the deal was announced earlier this year, industry analysts have been split on whether the consolidation of two key players in the Java infrastructure market will put the squeeze on Microsoft's .NET-based middleware and service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategies.
Grameenphone Ltd. has recently signed an agreement with Nam Dhari Malik Seeds Pvt. Limited to provide complete communication facilities under its Business Solutions package.
