Digital Bangladesh “Digital Bangladesh” and “Vision 2021” are catch phrases in Bangladesh these days. The buzzwords are no longer confined to the lexicon of information and communication technology (ICT) enthusiasts‚ but have entered the vocabulary of the educated section of the population. In its election manifesto leading up to the Ninth Parliamentary Elections in 2008‚ the Awami League (AL) coalition envisioned a Digital Bangladesh by 2021. The alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
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1. Introduction 1.1 Unilever Global Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch Multinational Corporation. It has a history of colonial exploitation‚ under which it has built its capital gradually. Today it owns much of the world’s consumer brands in food‚ home care and personal care. Unilever employs were more than 247‚000 people and the achieved a worldwide revenue of €48 760 million in 2002. Unilever has also two headquarters. One is Unilever PLC in London UK and another one is Unilever NV in Rotterdam‚ Netherlands
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it has started to decline and is expected to go down below 5.7%. This is mainly because of the fall in export since export consist of 20% of GDP in Bangladesh. Moreover‚ investment and consumption also is decreasing along with the decline in growth in manufacturing and service sectors. The growth of GDP in Bangladesh depend mainly on the industrial and the agricultural sectors. In FY2006-07‚ the growth rate was 6.43% that was estimated to be 6.42% by the BBS. This is mainly due to the decline in
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BNP CALLS HARTAL IN RANGPUR FOR TOMORROW BNP will enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Rangpur district on 1st Dec 13 demanding release of its Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed. Earlier‚ police arrested Rizvi from BNP’s central office in the capital early this morning. SHIBIR MAN KILLED IN JHENIDAH COP FIRING An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir‚ student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami‚ was killed and five including three law enforcers were injured when police‚ after being attacked‚ opened
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Introduction Bangladesh is enriched with extensive and huge qualitative water resources distributed all over the country in the form of different types of ponds‚ beels‚ lakes‚ boropits‚ small and large rivers and estuaries covering an area of about 4.34 million hectare (ha.). There are four categories of major fisheries resources: these are- 1) Inland open water‚ 2) Inland closed water‚ 3) Brackish water‚ and 4) Marine water. Fisheries sector has been playing a significant role from time immemorial
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Incidence of income taxation in Bangladesh Tapan K Sarker1 ABSTRACT: This article reviews the incidence of income taxation in Bangladesh tax system. The main purpose of the study is to determine how the burden of personal and corporation income taxes is allocated among taxpayers of different income groups. In case of personal income taxes it shows that only 13 percent taxpayers paying around 73 percent of tax revenue collected through personal income taxes and interestingly about 53 percent taxpayers
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This paper will critically review the major opposing perspectives on arbitration and industrial relations‚ with particular attention to how government regulation and intervention relate to the changes made to the system after 1996. The major focus of this brief paper will be to demonstrate that Howard ’s industrial relations policies resemble those of the late 1800 ’s‚ where the Master and Servant Act ’s regulated the relationships between employer and employee. These were replaced with the introduction
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CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF BANGLADESH 4th November 1972 PREAMBLE We‚ the people of Bangladesh‚ having proclaimed our Independence on the 26th day of March‚ 1971 and through a historic war for national independence‚ established the independent‚ sovereign People’s Republic of Bangladesh; Pledging that the high ideals of absolute trust and faith in the Almighty Allah‚ nationalism‚ democracy and socialism meaning economic and social justice‚ which inspired our heroic people to dedicate
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1.1 Introduction As a developing country‚ Bangladesh needs FDI for its ongoing development process. It is a potent weapon for developing the economy and achieving the country’s socio-economic objectives. The climate for investment is determined by the interplay of a whole set of factors: economic‚ social‚ political‚ technological and environmental that has a bearing on the operation of businesses. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has the potential to generate employment‚ raise productivity‚ transfer
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------------------------------------------------- Submission Date: 18th February‚ 2013 ------------------------------------------------- Current Energy Landscape The Government of Bangladesh through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) bears overall responsibility for the power sub-sector in Bangladesh. Consumption of commercial energy per head in Bangladesh is one of the lowest in Asia‚ if not the world. A lack of commercially priced sources of electricity has been a major factor in deterring foreign investment
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