Leading local pharmaceutical company Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd has announced the receipt of a sublicence from the Medicine Patent Pool (MPP), on behalf of originator company MSD, to produce Covid-19 oral drug “molnupiravir”.

The businessmen from Dhaka and district levels have urged the government to save them from the pressure that the VAT and income tax officials are putting on them for tax collection even during the Covid 19 fallouts.

The proposed Peoples Bank has failed to manage the Bangladesh Bank’s approval to start its operation despite having star cricketer Shakib Al Hasan in the lender’s list of shareholders.

For the first time in history, Bangladesh Bank today fixed minimum salary of entry level officials of banks in order to encourage talented young to take banking as a career and play role for the economic advancement of the nation.

Sakshi Handa, human resources director of Unilever Bangladesh, has been recognised as the top most global human resource leaders in Bangladesh by World HRD Congress.

Bangladesh Bank today extended the relaxed loan repayment facility for shipbuilders in a bid to help the industry tackle adversities derived from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Expatriate Bangladeshis will enjoy 2.5 per cent cash incentive if they remit five categories of service benefits in the form of remittance through formal channels, said the central bank today.

Envoy Textiles has been given go-ahead by the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) to issue fully redeemable non-convertible cumulative preference shares.

Dhaka Bank Ltd has arranged Tk 520 crore for Chandpur Power Generations Ltd (CPGL), a sister concern of Doreen Group.

Businessmen today expressed worries over the energy companies’ latest proposal to raise gas prices, as they believe another hike now will increase the cost of production and ultimately slow down the economic revival amid the ongoing pandemic.

The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to rise in the first hours of trading today.

The government has no plan to hike edible oil prices in the next 15 days as further review of the prices is needed, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said today.

The manufacturers of garment and its accessories today formed a joint committee to expedite export of apparel items.

Bangladesh needs to shift its product concentration to sectors like light engineering so that it can gradually move upwards in its industrialisation pathway, Senior Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh said today.

The economic and business tie between Bangladesh and the US is stronger than the previous normal time because of having a warm relationship between the two countries despite severe fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic, said John D Dunham, economic and Indo-Pacific Affairs Unit chief of the US embassy in Bangladesh.

The government is going to formulate the National Industrial Policy 2021 whereas the existing one could not be implemented properly due to a lack of legal basis, said the FBCCI's standing committee on industry and industrial policy today.

Software and information technology-enabled services (ITES) will enjoy export incentive if they abide by some rules set by the Bangladesh Bank during virtual shipment of products worth over $5,000.

The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended flat today while its turnover experienced a rise.

Leading Bangladeshi stockbroker LankaBangla Securities Limited (LBSL) has received ISO 9001:2015 (QMS) certificate today after an independent assessment of the organisation’s business and operational processes by the B-Advancy.

Bangladesh is expected to become the 24th largest economy in the world by 2030 despite a rise in poverty, unemployment and income losses because of the severe impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a government report.