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Businesses from India and the US have expressed interest in investing in Bangladesh and made proposals to improve the country's investment climate, Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir has said. Muktadir's remarks on Saturday came after attending a meeting at the Sylhet Metropolitan Police headquarters. He also said that some Indian businesspeople who recently visited Bangladesh have already invested in the country, the state-run BSS news agency reported. The commerce minister's remarks came days after a 14-member Confederation of Indian Industry delegation visited Bangladesh from August 17 to 19 to explore opportunities for expanding bilateral trade, investment and industrial cooperation. He said that Indian businesspeople have expressed interest in making the land ports between Bangladesh and India fully operational. "They have said that the closure or limited operation of land ports increases the cost of raw materials for Indian businesses," he said. Indian business ...

The 3.45 lakh sq ft Schwab India centre will support the US business through technology, engineering and operations, with headcount targeted at around 2,000 by end-2027

Just 49 per cent of the companies surveyed by the US-China Business Council said they planned to invest in the Asian country this year, up one percentage point from a record low last year

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday asked businesses to manufacture in the US to access local markets and offered companies L-1 visas to bring employees to launch projects here. Addressing the SelectUSA Investment Summit at National Harbour in Maryland, Lutnick said the US has flipped the script and was now encouraging companies to set up shop in the US instead of outsourcing production to other countries. "If you want to successfully sell in the United States, build here. Build here. If you want to access our markets..., hire our workers and do it here," Lutnick said. He described it as the "old model" where the US exported its intellect and intellectual property and all other countries built the factories. "We sort of outsourced production everywhere else in the world, but with Advanced manufacturing, we can bring it back," he said. "Our trade agenda has made it clear. If you build here, and you hire here, and you strengthen our industrial base, we will help you. We w

US-based Figma has opened a new office in Bengaluru, calling India its second-largest market after the US; the company serves users across 85% of Indian states, including top tech firms

The survey, carried out among 52 US-controlled members between September 8 and 16, showed that reducing tariffs was still the number one priority

The investment is expected to create 1,800 jobs across London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Manchester, and deepen transatlantic financial ties

Sergio Gor says reforms in India's labour norms and market access are key to fair trade, as US aims to double bilateral trade to $500 bn by 2030

Third-party providers garner even more attention during government shutdowns when federal data aren't published

Amid rising tariffs and global anti-American sentiment, major US companies are shedding national imagery and localising ads to stay competitive abroad

He was further asked how the administration plans to decide on what companies should and should not be exempted, and he said it will be considered 'instinctively'

Companies from Roche Holding AG to Nissan Motor Co. have backpedaled on DEI policies in the US

The remarks come amid a growing debate over the future of the H-1B visa, a programme that allows US companies to employ highly skilled foreign workers in specialised fields

Trump campaigned on a pledge to roll out a slew of tariffs, including for firms that had moved operations to Mexico, in a bid to restore jobs in the US

A broadening becomes especially important for the rally's progress now that megacap tech companies are projected to show slowing profit growth, on average

Artisan has been among some of Seven & i's vocal foreign investors who have urged the company to focus on its core convenience store business

In the case of HT rice, the technology that the JV will commercialize is called 'FullPage' which is a new generation double stack mutant herbicide-tolerant rice technology

As part of the agreement, Amazon Prime members will continue to be eligible to avail a free Grubhub+ membership worth $120 a year, which includes free delivery on orders above $12

Walmart employed approximately 2.1 million associates as of Jan. 31, 2024, according to regulatory filings

The other key emerging markets, the survey said, are southeast Asia, where 60 per cent of the respondents were willing to put in 50 per cent more investment in the next three years