Bangladesh's Corporate World

A Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) team recently visited Beximco group's Vertical Leeds Green Certified Industrial Park last week. The team was led by the Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Professor Satya Prasad Majumder. From Beximco Group's side, Chairman A. S. F. Rahman and Beximco Group Director and CEO Syed Naved Husain welcomed the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology team. The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology team was highly impressed by Beximco group's initiatives on value addition and innovation using advanced technology, education and R&D. The BUET team was very keen to be updated on Beximco's initiatives on sustainability including collaboration with recovertex, product development, optimization and sutomation, state of the art effluent treatment plant and the most advanced and largest sustainable washing plant with most advanced technologies under one

Beximco Pharmaceuticals has received a sublicence from the Medicines Patent Pool, a United Nations-backed public health organisation, to produce Pfizer's breakthrough Covid-19 drug Paxlovid. The pharmaceutical giant said it will manufacture the drug – which is an antiviral combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir – in Bangladesh after its successful technology transfer and manufacturing regulatory approvals. "We are already producing this drug," Rabbur Reza, chief operating officer at the company, told The Business Standard. "We will convert the Pfizer technology by December. Because of this agreement, now we will supply the drug to 95 low- and middle-income countries," he added. The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is working with an aim to increase poor countries' access to drugs. Clinical trial data has shown the pill, sold under the brand name Paxlovid, reduces the risk of hospitalisation and death from Covid by 89% if taken within three days of the onset of

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the development of today’s Bangladesh has only been possible as the democratic trend has been continuing for 13 consecutive years. “Today, you (people) have been seeing a changed Bangladesh for last 13 years which has only been possible because of continuation of democratic process in the country and Awami League was in power during the period,” she said. The premier made this remarks while addressing a civic reception accorded to her by expatriate Bangladeshis during her official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). She joined the event virtually from her place of residence in Abu Dhabi, while Bangladeshi community people were connected from three venues -- Bangladesh Consulate in Dubai, Abu Dhabi Theatre and Bangladesh English Private School and College in Ras Al Khaimah. Mentioning that Bangladesh is marching forward and none would be able to take it back anymore, Sheikh Hasina said, “There was a black chapter in the country after 1975...