The project to upgrade the Hatirjheel-Amulia-Demra highway into a four-lane expressway is finally moving forward. The planned thoroughfare will act as an alternative gateway to Dhaka’s city centre from Chattogram and Sylhet and will also help reduce traffic congestion.
On the 4th of October 2021 the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Uzbekistan, Mr. Radoslaw Gruk, paid an unofficial visit to the Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
At the beginning of 2021, a precedent-setting judgment was handed down in France in the case of a Bangladeshi national.
Bangladesh is opening up to foreign investors by building hi-tech parks with local and foreign investment. One of them will be dedicated to US investors.
Another meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission group formed by India and Bangladesh was held on 16 March 2021. It decided to expand cooperation on water resources.
After consultations and work on transport infrastructure for several years, India has made it easier and faster to transport fertilizers from Bangladesh to Nepal. The transportation will be done through the Rohanpur-Singhabad railroad line. The first shipment this year was sent on February 3.
In the last few years, Bangladesh has seen significant energy shortages. It is assumed that the natural gas deposits used so far will be depleted in the near future. These circumstances are largely slowing down the country’s economic development.
6 December 2020 The People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Kingdom of Bhutan announced the signing of a preferential trade agreement between the two countries.
According to the unb.com.bd portal, citing sources in the Internal Resources Department (a unit of the Bangladeshi Ministry of Finance), work on proposals to simplify the foreign direct investment mechanism (FDI) and the tax system of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh is at an advanced stage.
According to the latest press release of the Bangladeshi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Her Excellency Sultana Laila Hossain has been appointed as the new head of the country’s diplomatic mission to Poland.
