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MNA Business Desk: The inflow of remittances crossed US$ 2.50 billion-mark in July—before the celebration of Eid-ul-Azha — highest ever the country received in a month, officials said. Remittances from Bangladeshi nationals working abroad were estimated at $2.60 billion in July, up by 766.87 million a month before. The amount was $1.83 billion in June 2020. It was $1.60 billion in July 2019. The government’s incentive along with latest policy support, provided by the Bangladesh Bank (BB), has contributed to achieve the new record of inward remittances, they added. “The July remittance set a new record in the history of ...

MNA Feature Desk: Bangladesh is set to sew the world’s largest T-Shirt to break the Guinness record, marking the centenary founding anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has been assigned to sew the T-Shirt using cotton fabric to be branding the country’s apparel industry, which is the world second largest exporter. BGMEA President Dr Rubana Huq on Saturday said they started the process upon getting proposal from the ILO. Bangladesh is going to take the record over the Plastindia Foundation at Mumbai, India, which on 5 January 2018 sewed the largest T-shirt ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Remember back when Frozen became a cultural phenomenon. Well, audiences aren’t letting it go! Thursday morning, the first trailer for the film’s highly-anticipated sequel dropped and a lot of people tuned in to a catch the first glimpse of Disney animation’s big holiday release. In 24 hours, Frozen 2 became the most viewed animation trailer of all time, and the studio is celebrating. That’s right, buzz around the first Frozen 2 trailer snowballed into a record-breaking 116.4 million views in one day’s time, per Disney’s Frozen 2 Twitter. It has crushed The Incredibles 2, which ...

MNA Science & Technology Desk: China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd said on Thursday its consumer business sales exceeded a record $52 billion in 2018, on strong demand for its premium smartphones, even as it continued to face heightened global scrutiny of its activities. The jump of around 50 percent in the technology giant’s consumer business revenue saw that unit replace its carrier business as its largest segment by sales, Richard Yu, the head of the consumer division, said in Beijing. Huawei last month flagged that total revenue in 2018 rose 21 percent to $109 billion without providing a breakdown of ...

MNA Sports Desk: England set record the highest-ever team total in a ODI (one-day international) when they made total of 444 for three against Pakistan at Trent Bridge on Tuesday. In what was the 3,773rd match at this level England’s total surpassed the previous record of 443 for nine by Sri Lanka against the Netherlands at Amstelveen in 2006. It was also the highest ODI total in a match between two Test nations, topping South Africa’s 439 for two against the West Indies at Johannesburg last year. Alex Hales, on his Nottinghamshire home ground, made an England ODI record 171 ...