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The pharmaceutical industry in Bangladesh is one of the most developed industrial sectors within the country. Manufacturers produce insulin, hormones, and cancer drugs. This sector provides 98% [1] of the total domestic demand for medicine requirement in the country. This makes Bangladesh almost self sufficient in the pharmaceutical sector.
Bangladesh has seen a total of 12 Bangladeshi private airlines in the past 25 years. [1] US-Bangla is the largest airline in Bangladesh by fleet size while Biman Bangladesh is the national flag carrier. [2]
After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, BCSIR was established by a resolution of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh which subsequently was reconstituted as the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research through a Presidential Ordinance namely Ordinance No. (V) of 1978. [2]
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
PRAN-RFL Group (Bengali: প্রাণ-আরএফএল গ্রুপ) is a Bangladeshi conglomerate, [3] founded in 1981 by Amjad Khan Chowdhury.It is one of the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh [4] Pran-RFL Group is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and employs over 1,00,000 people worldwide making it the largest employer brand in the country.
The airport was initially served by domestic flights from Shahjalal International Airport by the country's national airline Biman Bangladesh Airlines [citation needed]. After many years of lobbying by expatriates living in the UK, limited expansion of the airport was carried out to enable medium-sized aircraft, such as the Airbus A310 used by ...
The significant number of people who live under the poverty line in Bangladesh (20.5% as of 2019) [41] and lower penetration of internet in Bangladesh [42] and India is one of the causes for the still low number of articles in Bengali. Also to blame is the socioeconomic context of Bangladesh and West Bengal as a whole. [43]
Citing World Bank estimates, an article in Quartz India noted that in 2013, Bangladesh was the fifth-highest source of remittances to India. That year, Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India. [2] [5] [6] An op-ed article in The Daily Star claims that this is the official figure.