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
Japan’s trade deficit hits record
Japan logged its largest ever annual trade deficit last year, with the soaring price of energy and raw materials compounded by the dramatic fall of the yen.
19 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Standard Ceramic suffers losses in Jul-Sep quarter
Standard Ceramic Industries Ltd suffered a loss of Tk 1.94 crore in the first quarter of the current financial year owing to higher cost of imported raw materials and the US dollar.
19 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh to present investment potential, successes to foreigners
A three-day “Bangladesh Business Summit-2023” is scheduled to begin on March 11 to share business environment improvements, investment successes and good practices and gain insights of global investors’ priorities for the development of policies.
19 January 2023, 18:00 PM
EU economy in 2023 to be a lot better than feared
The eurozone economy will fare “a lot better” this year than initially feared, European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said Thursday, as hopes grow that countries can avoid a painful recession.
19 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Only 8.5% of Western firms have left Russia: study
Despite widespread outrage over Moscow’s war in Ukraine, only a small number of Western companies have deserted Russia, according to a Swiss study.
19 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Locomotive workshop facing worker, fund shortages
Although Bangladesh Railway has expanded its efforts to provide rail transport in more areas of the country, its central locomotive workshop in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur is unable to operate at full force owing to a shortage of workers and funds.
19 January 2023, 04:00 AM
Balance of payments deficit to go thru the roof this fiscal year
Bangladesh’s balance of payments (BoP) deficit would widen massively in the current fiscal year than the central bank had earlier projected owing to escalated imports, lower remittances and export receipts, and higher accumulation of debts.
19 January 2023, 03:00 AM
Gas price hike spells trouble for industries
The latest hike of gas prices undoubtedly spells trouble for industries as they will try to shift the burden onto consumers by raising product prices, which will boomerang onto them by eating away at their competitiveness in international markets.
19 January 2023, 02:30 AM
No visible step from BB to ease importers’ woes
The Bangladesh Bank is yet to take any visible measure in line with a commerce ministry directive aimed at asking banks to earmark a portion of their foreign currency holdings to open letters of credit to import essentials ahead of Ramadan.
19 January 2023, 02:00 AM
Brac University gets Tk 450cr loan from Idcol
Brac University signed an agreement with Infrastructure Development Company Limited (Idcol) yesterday for a term loan facility.
18 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh needs Asean cooperation for more trade
Bangladesh should establish warm relationships with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to boost trade and investment with them, which would also benefit the north-eastern region of India, according to an expert.
18 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Ahmed Zaker & Co banned from auditing activities
Ahmed Zaker & Co Chartered Accountants has been banned from auditing all listed companies and mutual funds as the accountancy firm did not attend any enquiry hearing of four mutual funds of UFS Asset Management.
18 January 2023, 18:00 PM
IMF Loan Programme: Getting Bangladesh ready for LDC graduation
The prospective loan programme of the International Monetary Fund will prime Bangladesh for graduation from the least-developed country bracket and reach middle-income country status by 2031, said the lender’s top official.
18 January 2023, 01:40 AM
Panels to look into assets of three mutual funds
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has formed three committees to look into the assets of three fund managers: LR Global Bangladesh, Race Asset Management and ICB Asset Management.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Panel to revise quota proposals for food imports from India
The commerce ministry yesterday formed a five-member committee to assess the actual demand for wheat, rice and sugar with a view to sending a revised quota proposal to India to import them from the neighbouring nation.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM
More budget support, easy loans sought from AIIB
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday requested China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to extend more budget support and ease loan conditions the way the World Bank has done for Bangladesh.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Economy improving, say two ministers
While Bangladesh Bank was seeing various challenges looming over the country’s economy, two ministers yesterday said the condition of the economy was improving.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Govt to build hydraulic dam in Ctg for irrigation, eco-tourism
The government yesterday gave the go-ahead to a Tk 133 crore scheme to build a multipurpose hydraulic elevator dam to create the scope for irrigation on more than 1,100 hectares of land during the dry season and facilitate eco-tourism.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Meghna Bank gets new vice-chairman
Imrana Zaman Chowdhury, an entrepreneur, has been elected as vice-chairman of Meghna Bank.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Asiatic Laboratories’ IPO halted
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission has halted the initial public offering (IPO) of Asiatic Laboratories as it reportedly showed a higher value of its assets.
17 January 2023, 18:00 PM