The health ministry’s development spending was stuck at a disappointing level even after 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year for its failure to accelerate expenditures when the public needed the most.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) today lifted the floor price from all listed companies as it moved to halt its efforts to intervene in share price mechanism.

IFAD Autos has recently been allotted 30 acres of land by Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza) to set up an industrial complex.

After Jamdani, Shatranji, a traditional fabric of Rangpur, has now been recognised as a Geographical Indication (GI) product of Bangladesh.

Britain and United States agreed on Thursday to resolve a long-running trade dispute over Airbus (AIR.PA) and Boeing (BA.N) and turn their attention to tackling Chinese subsidies, echoing a five-year tariff truce announced by Washington and Brussels.

The clearing and forwarding (C&F) agents of Chittagong Custom House withdrew their strike at 5pm, which they started at 9am today morning to press home their six-point demands.

Members of Clearing and Forwarding Agents Association of Custom House in Chattogram went on strike today, protesting license suspension of a fellow agent.

US-based Excelerate Energy LP is going to supply 34 lakh MMBTU (million British thermal units) LNG to state-run Petrobangla at Tk 314 crore, according to a decision of the Cabinet committee on purchase today.

Britain’s finance ministry called on the European Union to open talks on financial services, after the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday urged the bloc to avoid protectionism.

British inflation has soared to the highest level since before the coronavirus pandemic, with clothing, fuel and oil prices rebounding as the economy reopens, official data showed Wednesday.

The European Union (EU) has offered to help Bangladesh diversify its export basket, promote decent work, and upskill workers amid the ongoing global economic downturn caused by Covid-19.

The government should prepare a two years’ survival plan for businesses, outlining different recovery guidelines, to safeguard the country’s trade and economy amidst the pandemic, said businesses yesterday.

Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks to keep their doors open from 10:00am to 3.30pm for customers until July 15.

Profit of BSRM Ltd soared 197 per cent year-on-year to Tk 273 crore in the first nine months of the 2020-21 fiscal year powered by higher sales, lower finance and operating costs.

Bangladesh can save $500 million a year by recycling the cotton waste as garment factories and textile millers produce a huge volume of leftovers of the key raw material, according to a study.

The provision base of the banks in Bangladesh deteriorated heavily in the first quarter of 2021 because of the surging bad loans, highlighting the worsening health of the banking industry.

The second wave of coronavirus infections and subsequent lockdowns have derailed Bangladesh’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, said the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) yesterday.

Gains in financial and industrial stocks lifted European shares on Wednesday, though the main equity index held off record highs on nervousness that the US Federal Reserve could flag later in the day when it plans to start unwinding its stimulus.

Nestle Bangladesh yesterday started processing, filling and packaging the company’s infant formula at its Tk 150 crore factory in Sreepur, Gazipur.

Like many other twenty-somethings in India, Beverly Coutinho kept postponing buying a life insurance policy, until a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths made her confront her own mortality.