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
Student movement affects goods transport
Supply of vegetables and essential goods to Dhaka has also been disrupted as the number of goods-laden trucks entering the capital fell sharply yesterday and the day before, they said.
19 July 2024, 15:48 PM
Exports dropped in last three years
Bangladesh’s exports have been declining over the past three years, according to the central bank data.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Quota system: a storm in a teacup
In the last one week, Bangladesh has been in the grip of student unrest over the quota system, rendering discussions over its merits and demerits a household phenomenon.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Reconditioned vehicle import rises defying inflation, dollar crisis
Import and sale of reconditioned vehicles have increased in Bangladesh at a time when the country is suffering from high inflationary pressure and foreign currency crisis.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Stocks drop amidst student movement
Stocks in Bangladesh fell for a second consecutive day yesterday as skittish investors sold off their shares in panic amidst a countrywide shutdown enforced by students demanding withdrawal of a quota system in government jobs.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Govt borrowing from banks to increase
Broadly, the policy measure to control inflation remains the same in the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) of the Bangladesh Bank for July-December 2024.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Not much beyond lip service
In their Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the first half of FY25, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has stuck to the policy stance already in place.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
BB keeps key policy rate unchanged but signals further tightening
Despite suggestions for a policy rate hike from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and economists, the central bank of Bangladesh has kept unchanged the major tool of its monetary policy at 8.5 percent although inflation is running high.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
DCCI calls for streamlining tax system to improve compliance
The NBR's collection target for the current fiscal year is Tk 480,000 crore, which is about 17 percent more than the previous fiscal year.
14 July 2024, 12:38 PM
Turnover on interbank forex market on the decline
Turnover slumped 48.9 percent year-on-year to $23.6 billion in 2022-23, the central bank said in its Monetary Policy Review 2023-24 published last week.
14 July 2024, 03:35 AM
Why are we shy of signing FTAs?
Free trade agreements (FTA) are made between countries to lower trade barriers through little to zero government tariffs or subsidies and other means.
13 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Digital activities to be included in census for first time
Bangladesh is set to include online economic activities of firms and households in its new census this year to cover all sectors of the country, a move that is expected to present data about the size of the expanding digital economy.
13 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Will there be any uptick in investment after PM’s China visit?
There was an expectation that investment inflows from China to Bangladesh would increase substantially following the Covid-19 pandemic as investors in China were looking for an alternative manufacturing hub.
13 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Govt short of taka, USD due to financial distress
The government does not have adequate taka and US dollars to implement the budget because of financial distress and its failure to raise enough revenues, said Ahsan H Mansur, executive director of the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh, yesterday.
13 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Full-fledged cancer treatment facilities need of the hour
High-quality cancer drugs are produced in Bangladesh. Oncologists and physicians are also available. However, the country is lagging in putting in place an adequate number of full-fledged facilities to treat patients suffering from such diseases.
12 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Local pharma lights up hope in cancer treatment
The pharmaceutical sector of Bangladesh has achieved many milestones over the past 14 years. Not only do local companies now meet 90 percent of the country’s demand for medicines, but the products are also exported to around 150 countries, fetching hundreds of millions of dollars.
12 July 2024, 18:00 PM
NBFIs’ bad loans surge to a record Tk 23,208 crore
Defaulted loans at non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) soared 38 percent to a record Tk 23,208.7 crore at the end of 2023, raising concerns over the sector’s deteriorating health.
11 July 2024, 18:00 PM
BTRC show-causes Robi, Banglalink for failing to improve service quality
This comes after the regulator sent a notice to GP on June 30 for “not using the allocated spectrum”, which affected the operator’s quality of service.
11 July 2024, 15:17 PM
China building more wind, solar capacity than rest of world combined
China currently has a total of 339 gigawatts (GW) of capacity under construction, including 159 GW of wind and 180 GW of solar, which far exceeds the second-ranked nation, the United States, which is building a total of just 40 GW.
11 July 2024, 15:00 PM
Govt to buy 30,000 tonnes of diesel from India, LNG from spot market
Diesel will cost Tk 273.67 crore, LNG Tk 583.56 crore
11 July 2024, 12:04 PM