PRIYO

Eid this year is going be a special one in many years for hundreds of jute Mills workers in Khulna as many of them for the first time received salary, bonus and other dues before Eid.

Bangladesh Bank has supplied so far Taka 4,500 crore till Monday since start of Ramadan to scheduled and commercial banks to meet their increased demands for funds ahead of holy Eid-ul-Fitr.

A large number of new industrial units awaits commissioning as the government fails to provide those with gas and power, stakeholders say.

The central bank yesterday directed all public banks to help the ultra-poor open bank accounts at Tk 10 so they can get the benefits of government sponsored safety net programmes.

Bangladesh has an immense opportunity of acquiring huge shipbuilding order worldwide as about 50 percent ships with less than 500 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) capacity vessels of over 20-year-old needs to be replaced within the next couple of years, experts said today at Shipbuilding, Machinery and Marine Technology (SMM-2010) trade fair here.

China will provide over $800 million credit assistance to Bangladesh to implement two projects — establishment of a new plant at Shahjalal Fertiliser Factory and introducing 3G system in the telephone system.

Workers of two ready-made garment factories blocked the Dhaka-Aricha Highway and Kaliakoir-Nabinagar road Wednesday morning to press home their demands ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Implementation rate of the annual development programme in the first month of the current fiscal year is barely 2 per cent, similar to that of July last year.

International anti-money laundering agencies have suggested that Bangladesh should reform its laws to combat the growing money laundering and terror financing or include itself in the group of ill-prepared countries, finance ministry officials said.

Around 2.3 lakh new beneficiary owners’ accounts were opened in the first two months of the current financial year contributing to the swelling of an already over-heated market amid a huge gap in demand and supply of shares.