Pulack Ghatack
Export earnings from the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are not increasing enough to keep pace with robust investment growth in the specially facilitated investment areas for the foreigners. Estimates of the 2006-07 and 2007-08 fiscal years show that investment doubled in eight EPZs of the country in a single financial year but export earnings [...]

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The new World Bank vice president for South Asia, Isabel Guerrero is now visiting Bangladesh and met with Bangladesh finance adviser AB Mirza Azizul Islam. [Read more]

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Staff Reporter
Awami League (AL) presidium member Tofail Ahmed yesterday demanded parliamentary election ahead of other polls and immediate withdrawal of emergency to restore democracy in the country.Tofail reiterated the demand while addressing the party leaders and activists as chief guest at a meeting organised by the Motijheel Thana Awami League at Mahbub Ali Institutions at [...]

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The border security forces of Bangladesh and India will begin a four-day negotiation in Kolkata on Monday.  [Read more]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran yesterday of not being serious at weekend talks about its disputed nuclear programme despite the presence of a senior US diplomat, and warned it may soon face new sanctions. [Read more]

UNB, DhakaThe presiding judge of a High Court Division Bench Sunday took serious note of an eminent jurist’s remarks over granting bail to top politicians facing corruption cases under the current purge in the interim period.“The remarks were made such a way it appears that we granted the bails in exchange for huge amounts of [...]

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