Of late gender equity is no more just a populist idea. Rather, it is being considered as one of the critical strategic priorities for businesses.

Bangladesh Bank has given go-ahead to scheduled banks to impose interest on sick industries’ loan amount at the highest rate of their cost of fund.

SS Steel Limited’s profit declined by 97.10 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of the current financial year because of a spike in the prices of raw materials caused by the unprecedented depreciation of the local currency against the US dollar.

Multinational corporations are propelling the country’s economic growth in many ways and their successes also give a boost to the confidence of potential investors, said experts yesterday.

Husking rice mill owners yesterday urged the government to form a Tk 30,000 crore fund to enable sick mills to make a turnaround and help them compete in the grain market.

Onion seed growers, particularly in the largest-producing district of Faridpur, are expecting bumper production this year as the weather has remained favourable so far.

The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) yesterday called for a 2.5 per cent reduction in the corporate tax rate for the non-listed companies in the upcoming budget.

Bangladesh should conduct real-time monitoring of imports and national supply chains for critical commodities to forecast and respond in a timely manner to policy challenges and tackle the impacts of the dragging Russia-Ukraine war, said Johan Swinnen, director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).   

The use of jute sacks to package 19 commodities remains a far cry 13 years past the enactment of the Mandatory Jute Packaging Act 2010. 

Pharmaceutical shipments from Bangladesh are slowly making a turnaround with a gradual improvement in the global US dollar crisis, according to drug exporters.

Firms in Bangladesh are optimistic about their overall business prospect but they also worry that their cost of production will increase in the coming months which may hinder their growth, according to the Business Confidence Index (BCI) unveiled yesterday.

China set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5 per cent on Sunday as it kicked off the annual session of its National People’s Congress (NPC), which is poised to implement the biggest government shake-up in a decade.

Bank Asia Limited yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Khulna University to improve productivity in Bangladesh’s agricultural sector.

Standard Chartered Bangladesh and Friendship have joined hands to ensure that char-based communities in northern and southern regions of the country receive much needed farm-to-market support to increase agricultural output, rise above poverty, produce efficiently, and build resilience.

Women entrepreneurs are going to showcase their products at Jamuna Future Park in a two-day fest from March 10 to celebrate the International Women’s Day.

Eleven individuals and organisations will be awarded on National Jute Day to be observed today.

The country’s poultry farmers yesterday urged the government to set chicken and egg prices for the local market claiming that they were currently incurring losses even though consumers were paying high prices for the two. 

Transcom Foods Limited, the official franchisee of the KFC and Pizza Hut brands in Bangladesh, recently held a “Bike Handover Ceremony” at its office in Gulshan-1.

Consumers in Bangladesh are still paying higher prices for sugar although a week has passed since the National Board of Revenue (NBR) removed the import duty on both raw and refined sweetener.

The mobile subscriber base in Bangladesh saw a slight growth in January this year compared to that a month earlier, with Banglalink continuing to showcase a strong performance in expanding coverage.