The key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange bounced again yesterday after suffering a significant decline on the preceding day. The midday solar blazes down on SM Sourcing, the world’s highest-rated green garment manufacturing facility in Gazipur’s Konabari. About 60 employees on one of the factory floors are busy making export-quality frocks as they hurriedly end their work ahead of lunch. Despite the summer time heat outside, just a few ceiling followers are switched on and the manufacturing facility flooring is quite cool.

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