From locally manufactured televisions and printed circuit boards to jeans made out of jute, a diverse range of products are being displayed by Bangladeshi companies at Bangladesh Business Summit 2023 to attract foreign clients.
Realtors yesterday called for an unconditional black money whitening scope for five to 10 years with a view to stopping money laundering and attracting investments to the housing sector.
To advance the country's leather sector, acquiring more land is necessary to solve various problems including waste management in the Tannery Industrial Estate in Savar, said Mohammad Tofazzel Hossain Miah, principal secretary to the prime minister. "We need to modernise the CETP [common effluent treatment plant] more.
A racket created over the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate smuggles high-chromium tannery waste, which ends up being used in animal feed. Thus, tanneries' chromium-containing toxic waste eventually enters the human body through fish and chicken, causing a risk of serious diseases, including cancer. It is also a violation of High Court directives to stop the use of tannery waste