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
Women entrepreneurs pushing forward economic growth in Pabna
Keya Islam, who lives in Radhanagar village under Pabna sadar upazila, had started her hand embroidery business about a decade ago in order to help provide for her family.
3 February 2023, 03:30 AM
Mobile makers seek more time to preinstall Bijoy
The Mobile Phone Industry Owners' Association of Bangladesh has recently sent a letter to the telecom regulator seeking more time to preinstall Bijoy software, saying that it requires a different set of tests as well as additional investments.
3 February 2023, 02:50 AM
Export earnings defy hard times
Despite the persisting volatility in the global economy and higher consumer prices in the western markets, Bangladesh’s merchandise shipment grew 5.89 per cent year-on-year to $5.13 billion in January, official data showed yesterday.
3 February 2023, 02:00 AM
Loan provision rules eased for stock intermediaries
The central bank yesterday relaxed the rules on the provisioning of bank loans to brokerage houses, merchant banks and stock dealers, a move that may make it easier for intermediaries to get credits.
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
BB sells dollar at Tk 101 for first time
Bangladesh Bank has sold US dollar at Tk 101 each to banks for the first time, giving indication that it is likely to devalue the local currency to reflect the market reality.
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
B2B startup ShopUp secures $30m debt financing
Business-to-business (B2B) startup ShopUp yesterday announced that it had secured $30 million in debt financing from both local and global lenders.
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
LC opening for Ramadan items rises: BB
Opening of letters of credit (LCs) for importing essential commodities meant for Ramadan increased in January, a development that is expected to increase supply of the items during the fasting month, said Bangladesh Bank yesterday.
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
UCB, Asset Developments trade services
United Commercial Bank (UCB) and the Asset Developments & Holdings have signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) recently over payroll services for the developer’s employees and preferential benefits on flat purchases by the lender’s employees.
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Sanem economists’ conference begins tomorrow
The South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem) is going to organise a two-day Annual
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Govt won’t raise fertiliser prices Razzaque says
The prices of fertiliser, seeds and other agricultural inputs will not be raised further to ensure continuous production and sustainable security of food, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said yesterday.
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
How to build a Smart Bangladesh
Once upon a time, there was a man who always bragged about his smartness. One day he came across an old man from his village and boasted, “I am the smartest man in the world. Nobody can match my intelligence.”
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Adani’s adversity raises the stakes for India and investors
As Indian tycoon Gautam Adani’s woes deepen and force him to drop a share sale, foreign
2 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Towards a just int’l tax system
Defying all common wisdom, the world had never had an apex body for international tax cooperation.
2 February 2023, 03:00 AM
UCEP-StanChart training countering Covid job losses
s soon as the coronavirus pandemic hit Bangladesh in early 2020, thousands of people, mostly in the informal sector, lost their jobs.
2 February 2023, 02:30 AM
IMF’s loan a respite for Bangladesh’s current economy
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) $4.7 billion credit facility will come as a relief for Bangladesh as the country faces a shortage of foreign exchanges, said the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) yesterday.
1 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Summit Alliance Port clocks 91% higher profit in Q2
Summit Alliance Port Limited (SAPL) posted nearly 91 per cent spike in profit to Tk 9.95 crore in the second quarter of the current financial year of 2022-23.
1 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Costly dollar hits Renata’s profit
Pharmaceutical company Renata Ltd witnessed a 35 per cent year-on-year drop in net profit in the October-December period due to increased price of raw material generated by the dollar crisis.
1 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Fresh impetus to contactless payment
Bangladesh Bank yesterday widened the scope for contactless payments in order to further boost touch-and-go transactions and push the country towards a cashless economy.
1 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Loans from export dev fund made costlier
Bangladesh Bank yesterday raised the interest rate on loans availed from its export development fund (EDF) by 50 percentage points to make borrowing costlier in an effort to save foreign currencies.
1 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Adani loses Asia’s richest crown
Shares in Indian tycoon Gautam Adani’s conglomerate plunged again on Wednesday as a rout in his companies deepened to $86 billion in the wake of a US short-seller report, with the billionaire also losing his title as Asia’s richest person.
1 February 2023, 18:00 PM