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Russia chases US spy plane

Russia and the United States, two of the world’s most powerful nations, have been embroiled in a Cold War for weeks. The Biden administration expelled 10 Russian diplomats last Thursday. Moscow did not hesitate to respond. They also ordered the same number of US diplomats to leave Russia.

Meanwhile, Russia has chased a US spy plane over the Pacific. The U.S. plane was forced to leave the area in a hurry.

Russia said in a statement that its MiG-31 fighter jet had shot down a US RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific Ocean.
Russian aircraft intercepted the plane as it approached Russian airspace. The U.S. spy plane chased the Russian plane and fled the area.

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday its radar had intercepted a U.S. plane in the skies off the coast of Kamchatka in the Pacific Ocean. However, the US plane did not violate Russian airspace.

A statement from Russia’s Defense Ministry said the bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a U.S. military base. The MiG-31 returned safely after the U.S. plane left the Russian border area.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is coming to India at the end of April

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is coming to India at the end of April. This was informed by his office on Monday. This will be his first visit to India as Prime Minister since leaving the European Union and, of course, his first important international visit.

He was scheduled to arrive in India on January 26, the day of the Republic Day. But the tour was canceled due to the growing Corona outbreak in Britain. That’s when Boris Johnson announced that he would be coming to India soon.

It was finally learned that he was coming to India in April. Corona’s new strain began to dominate Britain late last year. The situation was such that a new lockdown was announced. In that situation, Boris had to cancel his plan to come to India. He said it would not be right for him to leave Britain in such a situation in the country.

As a result, the possibility of a proposed trade deal with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has to be put on hold. It is learned that he is not coming to attend the Republic Day parade as the chief guest.


Incidentally, Britain is already on the path to further strengthening its alliance with the United States to increase its dominance in the Indo-Pacific region.

Meanwhile, Britain’s relations with China have gradually deteriorated. From China’s role in Hong Kong to the Corona situation, Britain is dissatisfied with Beijing in many ways. The idea of ​​the diplomatic community is that Britain would like to move towards strengthening relations with India by keeping an eye on all aspects.

India has been invited to attend the G-7 summit in June. At that time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was supposed to go to Britain to attend the conference. Before that, the whole world will be watching what happens between the two statesmen in April.

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Bangladesh is the world’s best in readymade garments.

Corono epidemic

Despite the Corona epidemic, Bangladesh has overtaken Vietnam to become the second largest exporter of ready-made garments in the country. China is at the top as always. This history of rising to second place is not new to Bangladesh. In the 50th year of independence, the garment industry of Bangladesh is now dreaming of a new one.

Entrepreneurs

In addition to eco-friendly green factories, the entrepreneurs of this industry want to export garments made of a new yarn. Bangladesh is dreaming of overtaking China to become the top garment exporter by producing man-made synthetic fibers or man-made fiber garments instead of the traditional cotton yarn.


Over the past decade, exports from India and Pakistan, two of the largest economies in South Asia, have declined, but at the same time, exports of ready-made garments to Bangladesh have increased by 80 per cent. According to BGMEA, the industry, which started just four decades ago, now has a total of 2,300 ready-made garment factories.

Of these, BGMEA has 874 factories. In addition, 135 eco-friendly green factories have been set up, 7 of which are in Bangladesh out of 10. Another 500 green factories have applied to the Green Building Council of the United States for recognition.

The industry, which started with 130 trainees under the late Nurul Quader Khan in the 1990-1991s, now has around half a crore workers. According to BGMEA, there were about 4 lakh workers in the garment factories in the 1990-91 financial year. And in 1996-97 financial year it increased to 13 lakhs. From 2002-03 to 2004-05 there were 20 lakhs.

Financial year

In the financial year 2008-09, the number of these workers increased to 35 lakhs. At present, there are about 4.4 million male and female workers in the sector, most of whom (about 70 per cent) are female workers, according to BGMEA.
On March 3, The Wall Street Journal praised Bangladesh’s economic success, saying that in 2011 Bangladesh’s per capita income was 40 percent lower than India’s.

Economic power

Bangladesh took over the country last year to make up for this shortfall. All in all, Bangladesh is now the emerging economic power of South Asia. Exports like South Korea, Vietnam and China are the main strengths of Bangladesh’s development. And one of the main sectors to increase this export is readymade garments.

One of the reasons behind the increase in garment exports is the huge number of women workers and low wages compared to other countries in the world. Such a presence of women in the labor force is not noticeable in the whole of South Asia.

Success


This success of the last four decades in readymade garments is showing new dreams to the garment entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs in the readymade garments sector are now planning to export garments made of man-made fiber or man-made synthetic fibers to take advantage of more investment.

On the one hand, it will create opportunities for foreign investment in the backward linkage industry of the garment sector, on the other hand, it will create opportunities to further increase export earnings by producing high-value garments. Concerned people said that after independence, Bangladesh’s export products were few. The country’s export income was mainly dependent on jute. For this reason it was called golden fiber.

Ready-made garment

The picture has been changing since the eighties. Entrepreneurs of the country found another gold. They started exporting garments made of cotton woven cloth. Garment factories are being set up one by one in the country. His next story is just a history of success. In 2021, the 50th year of independence, the ready-made garment sector has accounted for 80 per cent of the country’s total export earnings.

The industry is also at the forefront of the ‘Made in Bangladesh’ branding campaign going on abroad. Not only export sector, but also investment and employment sector is now at the top. But despite all this, the entrepreneurs are moving forward with the dream of becoming number one in the international world.

And to realize this dream, they want to set up man-made fiber factories as well as foreign investment in the backward linkage industry in the garment sector.

Entrepreneurs in the garment sector say that 84% of the garments made in Bangladesh are cotton based. Basically, 85 percent of the country’s products are made on five basic items. Again, to make these garments, at least 70 to 85 percent of the oven fabric has to be imported.

It is not possible to survive in the world market for a long time with a short variety of cotton based garments. For this, besides setting up man-made fiber factories, it is necessary to attract foreign investment in the backward linkage industry.

And the entrepreneurs argue to attract foreign investment in the backward linkage sector, (1) The country’s ready-made garment industry produces 4 lakh metric tons of jute products a year. By recycling this lie alone, if the initiative is taken to produce yarn, it is possible to save at least 4 billion US dollars in this sector; (2) Different types of spare parts are used in the readymade garment industry of the country.

In the 2018-19 financial year, 1,605 million US dollars was spent on the import of 28 types of parts. Foreign investment in this sector will save valuable foreign exchange; And (3) according to international market forecasts, the country’s textile chemical market, which was 84 million in 2019, could grow to ৮ 1.38 billion in 2024 by investing in man-made fiber.


According to the concerned, this future plan of Bangladesh’s ready-made garment sector has also been presented to the World Bank Group IFC. The international organization has promised to finance the strategic development of Bangladesh’s garment sector. Press conference of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers Exporters Association (BGMEA) at a virtual meeting of World Bank Group IFC recently

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Myanmar’s Military Stages Coup, Detains Aung San Suu Kyi And Other Leaders

Myanmar’s military has reportedly declared a state of emergency and taken power for one year after arresting the country’s top political leaders.

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other officials from the governing National League for Democracy (NLD) were detained by the military early Monday morning.

“With the situation we see happening now, we have to assume that the military is staging a coup” the NLD’s spokesman Myo Nyunt said to Agence France-Presse.

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Bangladesh an inspiration to South Asian peers

Bangladesh’s mind boggling monetary ascent throughout the years has become a wellspring of motivation for other south Asian countries as the nation has just demonstrated its strength even in the midst of the progressing Covid-19 pandemic, when the worldwide economy is attempting to endure, said Binod Chaudhary, author of CG Corp Global.

Notwithstanding all the administrative and political difficulties in South Asia, Bangladesh has had a dazzling monetary excursion.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) had even extended that Bangladesh would observer financial development of 3.8 percent, the most elevated among its south Asian companions, during the pandemic time, said Chaudhary, who says that Bangladesh resembles a home away from home for him.

In the course of the most recent 30 years, Chaudhary has not just made various business attaches with the nation, yet a great deal of individual connections also.

He referenced one name specifically, being that of the late Latifur Rahman, a prominent Bangladeshi business symbol and previous executive and CEO of Transcom Group. Chaudhary had worked with Rahman in different limits across South Asia.

While tending to the nineteenth version of the Bangladesh Business Awards service, an activity of DHL Express and The Daily Star held yesterday, Chaudhury discussed the seriousness of the administrative and political difficulties of working together in South Asia.

“In the event that you can work together in South Asia, you can work together anyplace on the planet,” said Chaudhary, the primary Nepalese tycoon.

The Covid-19 aftermath has offered ascend to various difficulties everywhere on the world, driving numerous corporate combinations to rethink their conventional everyday arranging.

It is additionally reshaping the worldwide economy and rebuilding exchange, said Chaudhury, who has organizations in 40 nations.

Simultaneously however, the pandemic has made a great deal of business openings. The flourishing web based business area is a sparkling illustration of the open doors that originate from Covid-19.

Thus, Bangladesh likewise has the degree to misuse these chances.

For example, Bangladesh has just become a center for new businesses, particularly in internet business, Chaudhury stated, refering to rising web based business organizations, for example, Pathao, Daraz and bKash as great representations.

During his time as an understudy, Chaudhury, who was abruptly compelled to assume control over his family’s material business, had commended the ascent of Bangladesh’s material and piece of clothing enterprises, which in the end turned into the second biggest provider worldwide after China more than forty years.

In spite of the fact that Nepal and Bangladesh began their material and piece of clothing ventures simultaneously, Bangladesh demonstrated its boss strength in the area through its enterprising versatility and government upholds, he said.

Over the four-long term venture, Bangladesh’s article of clothing industry, which represents 11 percent of the nation’s GDP, is a spearheading business achievement for the nation that utilizes around 4.4 million individuals.

“With worldwide store network esteem moving from China to different nations, Bangladesh has a major occasion to venture forward. Furthermore, such models could be an immense model for south Asian nations like Nepal to create and quicken the material business front,” the Nepalese business mogul said.

It was rousing to peruse from different sources that Bangladesh’s economy was considered close by that of China’s for the recovery of monetary development in Asia, he added.

The IMF demonstrated that Asia’s recuperation will be 1.9 percent from China and 3.9 percent from Bangladesh. With a GDP for each capita pay of $5,139, Bangladesh’s economy isn’t simply motivating to South Asians yet additionally to the world in giving monetary tranquility.

“I might likewise want to accept this open door to praise the public authority of Bangladesh in keeping the movement of financial thriving towards making South Asia home to the special,” Chaudhary said.

Bangladesh has kept an amazing history on development and improvement. In its wonderful excursion, Bangladesh’s economy and human improvement went connected at the hip with financial development.

Neediness dropped by almost a third, combined with expanded future, proficiency and per capita food admission.

Business venture is tied in with dreaming, amazing boldness and doing things another way. The business excursion of Chaudhary Group began with a customary privately-owned company that began somewhere in the range of 140 years back.

“Likewise, the mental fortitude it took to construct our business around the network and our commitment has been the solid feeling of inclination. Henceforth, achievement is consistently around social effect. I accept that we are continually changing throughout everyday life,” he said.

The simply path conceivable to continue pushing ahead is to have a dream and decide how to arrive at that vision.

“At the point when I previously began, it was difficult to work together in Nepal,” said Chaudhury while talking regarding his rough excursion to turn into an effective business character in South Asia.

A portion of the significant obstacles were indistinct guidelines and laws, shut society, exacting unfamiliar trade guideline and severe political system.

“I actually chose to follow my heart and attempted to discover the answer for every issue and found the lawful method of doing global business without disregarding any laws of the nation,” he said.

“The excursion was intense and in spite of the fact that it took me 20 years to set up one specific organization, I didn’t lose trust and had the option to achieve my fantasy,” Chaudhury stated, adding that the future will be much more splendid.

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Indonesia’s 50 Richest 2020: In A Pandemic Year, More Than Half Saw Fortunes Decline

As Indonesia’s Covid-19 cases crossed the half-million mark—the biggest outbreak among Southeast Asian countries—the country slipped into its first recession since the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

The economy contracted 5.3% and 3.5% (year-on-year) in the second and third quarters, respectively. The benchmark stock index fell more than 10% in the past 12 months.

Consequently, over half of the nation’s 50 richest saw their fortunes decline from a year ago. Despite these downdrafts, the collective wealth of Indonesia’s super wealthy was down only 1.2% from last year’s list to $133 billion.

R. Budi and Michael Hartono, who were among the minority that saw an uptick in their fortunes, are now worth $38.8 billion.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping Finally Congratulates Biden On U.S. Election Win

Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated President-elect Joe Biden for winning the U.S. election Wednesday, according to state media outlet Xinhua, after weeks of holding off as one of the only major world leaders not to acknowledge the Democrat’s victory. 

While China’s foreign ministry offered brief congratulations to Biden on November 13, Xi has demurred, as President Donald Trump has engaged in an ultimately fruitless legal campaign to overturn the results of the election. 

In the message to Biden, Xi said that “promoting the healthy and stable development of China-US relations” is in the interests of both parties and the expectation of the international community. 

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Narail residents mourn Pranab Mukherjee’s death

The residents of Narail mourned the death of former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee as he was married to Suvra Mukherjee hailing from the district, reports UNB.

Leaders of various political parties and people of different professions paid their deep respects to Pranab, a ‘true friend of Bangladesh’, and wished the eternal peace of his departed soul.

They also conveyed condolences to his bereaved family members.

Subash Chandra Bose, president of Narail District Awami League and president of Suvra Mukherjee Foundation, AL’s general secretary and Sadar Upazila chairman Nizam Uddin Khan Nilu, Mashrafe’s father Golam Mortaza Swapan, District Workers Party’s president Nazrul Islam, District Jasad president…………