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  New Facebook job-hunting features challenge LinkedIn

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 11:14pm on February 16, 2017

  Facebook on Wednesday began letting businesses in the US or Canada post jobs and take applications from jobseekers, posing a challenge to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn...

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  Biman hopeful to qualify RA3 check to resume cargo flights to UK

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:10pm on February 16, 2017

  Officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Thursday said they were making a loss of Tk 5.76 crore each month due to the ban on direct...

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  Tofail urges India to remove NTBs

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:08pm on February 16, 2017

  Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday urged Indian government to remove various tariff and nontariff barriers (NTBs) for Bangladeshi products to boost bilateral trade between...

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  BIDA to tighten work permit issuance to semi-skilled foreign workers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:07pm on February 16, 2017

  Bangladesh Investment Development Authority has asked industrial units registered with it to refrain from hiring semi-skilled foreign experts and workers against the posts which could...

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  Govt mulls relaxing gold bar import rules

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 10:59pm on February 16, 2017

  The government is considering relaxing regulations to facilitate gold bar import through the formal channel for meeting the local demand for the precious metal and...

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  Plastic industrial estate to be completed by 2018: Amu

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 10:22pm on February 15, 2017

  Industries minister Amir Hossain Amu Wednesday said the work on developing a plastic industrial estate is likely to be completed by June 2018 to ensure...

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  Winter clothes’ sales halve in Dhaka

  Mostafizur Rahman | Updated at 10:29pm on February 14, 2017

  The sales of warm clothes in the Dhaka city have almost halved in this winter compared with that in the last winter as this year...

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  IndustriALL urges govt to stop trade union repression

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:26pm on February 14, 2017

  IndustriALL Global Union, a global trade union federation, on Monday urged Bangladesh government to stop repression of trade unionists and release all those who are...

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  Huge defaulted loans in SCBs to hit GDP growth: BB governor

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:24pm on February 14, 2017

  Bangladesh Bank governor Fazle Kabir on Tuesday said excessive defaulted loans in the state-owned commercial banks would put an obstacle in achieving expected GDP growth...

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  Voice mail service launched

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:08pm on February 13, 2017

  The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Monday launched voice mail service, or VMS, in the country for the first time with a view to expanding...