HC bars trade, town association groups from Ctg chamber’s polls
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
Business
Akij Resource plans to launch digital bank
23 October 2025, 13:27 PM
Business
ILO ratification demands labour reforms in Bangladesh
23 October 2025, 12:59 PM
Business
Summit Power’s profit plunges 88% in FY25
23 October 2025, 10:18 AM
Business
Culture of impunity behind repeated industrial disasters: BILS
23 October 2025, 08:05 AM
Business
Govt moves to boost House Building Corporation’s lending capacity
22 October 2025, 18:42 PM
Business
Interbank dollar price crosses Tk 122 after 2.5 months
22 October 2025, 18:36 PM
Business
Auction full ‘golden spectrum’, lower prices
22 October 2025, 18:35 PM
Business
Foreign banks top profits, trail in social spending
22 October 2025, 18:24 PM
Business
Telcos, ISPs asked to boost fire safety measures
22 October 2025, 15:40 PM
Business
200MW solar power plant opens
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated a 200-megawatt (MW) solar power plant, the highest renewable resource-focused power generation capacity of a single facility in the country, built by Beximco Power Ltd.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
ShopUp wins ‘Investment Excellence Award’
ShopUp, a B2B platform for small businesses, has won “Investment Excellence Award” at the Bangladesh Startup Summit 2023 for raising more than $201 million from investors.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
BGIC achieves ‘AAA’ credit rating
Bangladesh General Insurance Company (BGIC) Ltd has achieved Triple-A (‘AAA’) credit rating in the long-term and ‘ST-1’ in the short term.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Oil price falls
Oil prices edged lower on a stronger dollar and signs of profit-taking after a rally in July when investors bet on tighter global supplies and demand growth in the second half of 2023.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Textile Talent Hunt’s eighth edition launched
The eighth edition of a talent grooming competition titled Textile Talent Hunt was launched yesterday by Textile Today Innovation Hub, a platform of a textile industry-based magazine Textile Today.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Govt working to double farm productivity by 2030: Razzaque
The agriculture ministry is working to reduce production costs and increase the variety of crops being cultivated with the aim of doubling agricultural productivity by 2030, according to Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
DGepay gets payment operator’s licence
DGepay Services Limited has received the licence to run as a payment system operator.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Nagad returns NBFI licence to become digital bank
Nagad has surrendered its non-bank financial institution (NBFI) licence as most of its shareholders are for it to become a digital bank, said Tanvir A Mishuk, managing director of the mobile financial service (MFS) provider, yesterday.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Why unemployment rate is decreasing
Unemployment has declined in Bangladesh, and although this means more people are contributing to the economy, analysts are not too upbeat about the development as most of the growth took place in agriculture.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
BGMEA misses deadline to form election board
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has missed the deadline to form the election board to hold the polls in order to elect the leadership for 2023-25.
2 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Low rainfall forces farmers to irrigate Aman fields
After 16 percent below normal rainfall in June, Bangladesh saw a drier July as it registered 50.8 percent below normal rain, which forced many farmers to irrigate their fields to cultivate Aman paddy, the second largest rice crop.
2 August 2023, 00:00 AM
Insurance claim settlement far below average
Claim settlement in the insurance sector in Bangladesh stood at 67 percent in 2022, highlighting bad investments and non-compliance that prevented insurers from attaining a higher ratio, data from the regulator showed.
2 August 2023, 00:00 AM
Chinese FDI showing strong growth
Bangladesh has seen rapid growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) from China ever since the country joined its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2016, according to a report by the Chinese embassy in Dhaka.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Banglalink to apply for digital banking licence
Mobile network operator Banglalink has decided to apply for a digital banking licence as it looks to leverage its vast pool of customers to serve a population increasingly using technologies to make and receive payments.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh focuses on lower duty, higher investment
Bangladesh focused on areas of duty-reduction and increasing investment from Japan during recent discussions on the potential signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the two countries, according to an official of the commerce ministry.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Bright spots in insurance claim settlement
Bangladesh’s life insurance sector has always struggled in claim settlement, but the sector still has some good companies who are bearing the torch for all with faster fund repayment and good corporate governance.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Insurers that are struggling to settle claims
A number of life insurance companies in Bangladesh struggled to settle claims in 2022 due to a lack of liquidity resulting from bad investments and fund embezzlement by their chairmen and directors.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Govt plans economic zone for fish processing industry
The government is planning to set up a separate economic zone for the fisheries sector in order to promote the fish processing industry, said Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim yesterday.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Fatema joins Bangladesh Finance as director
Fatema Begum, a former additional inspector general of police, has recently joined Bangladesh Finance as its director.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Nasim Manzur becomes Pioneer Insurance chair
Syed Nasim Manzur has been elected as the chairman of Pioneer Insurance Company Ltd at a meeting of the board of directors of the insurer in Dhaka recently.
1 August 2023, 18:00 PM