Bangladesh will for the first time import 9 million bales of cotton this year thanks to the sudden rise in demand for yarn and fabrics, said Mohammad Ali Khokon, president of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA).

The Bangladesh Bank has fined National Bank Tk 55 lakh as it tried to conceal loan related information of 11 persons, which is a gross violation of the banking rules.

The Digital Commerce Cell (DCC) today asked Bangladesh Bank (BB) to start giving refunds of the money stuck in payment gateways since July 1 last year that was paid by the customers of Qcoom.

The government should increase public awareness instead of imposing lockdowns in Bangladesh to handle the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Md Jasim Uddin, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), said today.

Bangladesh’s economy is projected to grow 6.9 per cent in fiscal year 2022-23 thanks to strong export growth and a rebound in domestic demand, the World Bank (WB) said in its Global Economic Prospects released yesterday.

The cabinet committee on public purchase today gave go ahead to the import of 90,000 tonnes of diesel from India's Numaligarh.

The government has set a target to hit $80 billion in export earnings in the latest Export Policy for 2021-2024, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange touched 7,000 points mark today after a break of a month thanks to the higher participation of buoyant investors.

The Policy Research Institute (PRI) suggested keeping the economy open during the presence of the new coronavirus variant Omicron.

Bangladesh is touched by the technology revolution across almost all sectors from supply chain to transportation and trading to banking.

Local garment exporters today demanded removal of trade barriers in Japan to boost apparel shipments to the East Asian nation.

The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose again today after experiencing a fall yesterday when investors went for booking profits.

The Dhaka stocks surged in the first three hours of trading today after experiencing a fall yesterday.

Tax collection grew 14.2 per cent year-on-year to Tk 126,209 crore in the July-December period of the current fiscal year, according to the provisional data of the National Board of Revenue.

Officers and employees of six state-owned commercial banks in haor, island and char areas will get an allowance between Tk 1,650 and Tk 5,000 per month.

The knitwear manufacturers have demanded 42 months’ time, up from the government’s allocated 18 months, to clear the instalments of the Tk 7,500 crore stimulus loans that were given to them in 2020 to pay workers’ salary and allowances.

The cost of doing business may reduce by around 5 per cent if the capacity of the Chattogram port is increased, said Md Jashim Uddin, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

The lawmakers will be able to import electric cars and hybrid jeep duty-free from now on, according to a notification of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued yesterday.

The Bangladesh Bank has allowed Padma Bank to clean its balance sheet by giving permission to erase its accumulated loss in order to attain foreign direct investment.

Bangladesh Bank has allowed Janata Bank to regularise default loans of scam-hit AnonTex Group, relaxing its own rescheduling policy.