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Tokyo stocks opened higher on Tuesday as investors kept a bullish outlook with Japan preparing to start vaccinations against the coronavirus, fuelling hopes for economic normalisation.

A Chinese biotechnology firm will start constructing its plant for plasma fractionation in Bangladesh soon. This will be the first biotechnology plant in the country.

Some 37 local textile and garment manufacturers have started investing in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) to establish high-end apparel factories.

The Bangladesh Bank has instructed the poorly-performing Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank to take corrective measures over violation of rules relating to transfer and promotion of the specialised bank’s employees.

The government has drafted a policy on charcoal to tap the export potential of the non-traditional item and the efficient use of jute-stalks.

The Swadhinata Parishad candidates were assaulted during the election in 2019, with members with allegiance to the rival platforms snatching away their nomination papers and other documents, alleges its chief

Bangladesh has achieved an epoch-making success in the agriculture, fishery and livestock sectors to ensure national food security under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the last 12 years.

One of the major reasons behind MNP’s failure to launch is that users stopped receiving text messages after making the switch, a problem that the BTRC hopes to solve by making all third-party SMS vendors connect to a platform that allows seamless routing

On February 4, at a roundtable organised by Eastern Bank, Hideaki Kojima, the country representative of Japan’s largest lender, said Bangladesh has the most complicated letters of credit opening conditions.

The country’s readymade garment exports to non-traditional markets in the July-January period of current financial year 2020-21 plunged by 9.44 per cent compared with that in the same period of the previous fiscal year due to an economic slowdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.