HC bars trade, town association groups from Ctg chamber’s polls
23 October 2025, 15:00 PM
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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
BB moves to curb bad loans
The central bank yesterday rolled out a new credit rating system to rein in spiralling bad loans.
17 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Bank Asia observes agent banking day
Bank Asia celebrated its Agent Banking Day 2019 at Bhabanipur Bazar of Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj yesterday.
17 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Internet growth hits 3-year low
The growth of new internet connections fell 21.58 percent year-on-year to 1.09 crore in 2018, a three-year low.
15 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Robi gains most from MNP
Robi gained about two-third of the customers that have switched operators by way of the mobile number portability (MNP) service in the first three months of its roll-out.
15 January 2019, 18:00 PM
ADB provides $200m to upgrade rural road network in Bangladesh
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh sign agreements for $200 million in loans to improve the rural road network in Bangladesh.
13 January 2019, 09:53 AM
Banks still a man's world
Iffat Jahan Dina landed a well-paying job in a private bank soon after obtaining her Masters degree from Rajshahi University. She dedicated herself to the job, which she found gratifying.
12 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Kamal in denial about bad loan situation
Bangladesh's non-performing loan situation is not as dire as is being reported in the news media, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.
10 January 2019, 18:00 PM
State banks' cash recovery flatters to deceive
Despite the huge loan rescheduling spree, the four state-owned banks saw poor cash recovery from their top defaulters in the first nine months of 2018.
6 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Apparel shipment to Europe quicker now
Bangladesh's garment shipment to Europe has expedited with the introduction of transshipment facility from Kolkata's Netaji International Airport on a pilot basis, exporters said.
6 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Stocks hit 8-month high
The stockmarket has continued to maintain its post-election rally, reaching an eight-month high of 5,687 points yesterday.
6 January 2019, 18:00 PM
I will not fail
The finance ministry will make a fresh start from today and will be beyond reproach, said AHM Mustafa Kamal after he was given charge of the ministry.
6 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Huawei raps staff for sending New Year tweet via iPhone
Chinese telecom giant Huawei has punished two employees for posting a New Year greeting on the company's official Twitter account using an iPhone made by arch rival Apple, an internal memo showed.
5 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Automation and the future of tax payment
The process of collecting tax and complying with tax laws is changing fast. New generation computer software, real time reporting, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are transforming the tax systems of economies around the world.
5 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Xiaomi brings Mi 8 Lite
Xiaomi has recently launched the latest model of its flagship Mi 8 series, Mi 8 Lite, in Bangladesh.
5 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Loan rescheduling soars 30pc
Loan rescheduling soared about 30 percent to Tk 10,963 crore in the first nine months of 2018, fuelling further fears for the sector.
3 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Japanese firm to invest $10m in Meghna economic zone
Japanese Sakata Inx is set to invest $10 million to establish a liquid ink manufacturing plant in the Meghna Industrial Economic Zone (MIEZ), a development that can reduce the country's import dependency of the product.
3 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Janata sinks into colossal losses
Janata Bank logged in losses of Tk 3,132 crore in the first nine months of 2018, a stunning reversal in fortune for the state-owned bank as loan irregularities finally take a toll.
2 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Pubali Bank reappoints additional MD
Safiul Alam Khan Chowdhury has recently been reappointed additional managing director of Pubali Bank for three years.
1 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Digital services at ease as mobile internet is back
The telecom regulator withdrew the 37-hour suspension on mobile internet services yesterday at 10am.
1 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Shrimp exporters stare at bleak future
Shrimp processors finished the first half of fiscal 2018-19 amid lower export receipts than a year earlier, with a revival in fortunes progressively looking unlikely in the second half, said exporters yesterday.
1 January 2019, 18:00 PM