Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram metro fined eight businesses including KDS Textile and Heidelberg Cement at least Tk 4.25 lakh for polluting environment.

The Biden administration needs to develop an aggressive, coherent digital policy to counter China’s growing technological power, industry groups and former US officials say.

Bangladesh has expressed its interest to enter into a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Maldives within the purview of the WTO provisions, to harness the trade potentials.

Tech giant Dell Technologies has appointed Sonia Bashir Kabir to its Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) CXO Advisory Board. Twenty-two members across Asia have been chosen to join Dell’s APJ CXO Advisory Board.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today laid emphasis on increasing the foreign direct investment (FDI) into the economic zones, placing Bangladesh on a higher development trajectory to achieve the dream of “Sonar Bangla”.

South Korea and Bangladesh have agreed on joint effort to enhance bilateral trade and investment.

Digital platforms and other technology-based tools are providing new growth opportunities for businesses of all sizes and across all industries in Asia and the Pacific.

Auto sales in China, the world’s biggest market, surged in January with a 30 percent jump from the same month a year earlier, the tenth month of gains, as China continued to lead the global automobile industry’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mohaimin Mostafa and Rehanur Rahman, managing directors of Crimson Cup, speaks to The Daily Star about the story behind the licensing of Crimson Cup, Which has especially picked up popularity in the youth-centric culture. They talk about their journey from just being two fresh graduates with determination, to kick-starting the self-service coffee culture in Bangladesh and how they have managed to overcome tough competition in recent years through their perspective of keeping it simple and unwavering focus towards coffee.

The garment sector is on way to receive a second round of stimulus, with government plans reasoning that it has been severely affected by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

Two Chinese companies are set to invest around Tk 244 crore, equivalent to $28.69 million, in Bangladesh for establishing manufacturing units for non-woven personal protective equipment (PPE), steel structural items and ready-mix concrete.

Robust infrastructure and skilled manpower are essential to boost the ongoing digitalisation initiatives taken by the government.

Innovation, product development and building human resources are the key requisites for taking the country’s entrepreneurship to the next level.

Bangladesh’s incredible economic rise over the years has become a source of inspiration for other south Asian nations as the country has already shown its resilience even amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, a time when the global economy is struggling to survive, said Binod Chaudhary, founder of CG Corp Global.

Leather goods and footwear exporters will continue to face serious hardships amid the ongoing pandemic as the declining export orders have led to a capital shortage in the sector, according to industry insiders.

The managing director of Prime Bank has resigned just days before his three-year contract is scheduled to expire, citing that it was for “personal reasons”.

The government yesterday approved a proposal to set up a 55-megawatt wind power plant in Bagerhat, a move that may give a much-needed fillip to its efforts to tap the country’s unrealised renewable energy potential.

The telecom regulator has drafted a guideline to give go-ahead to local firm to manufacturer and assemble devices related to telecom services.

Bangladesh needs a huge amount of Dutch investment and support of its superior technologies to boost productivity in agriculture, speakers told a summit yesterday.

Multilateral lenders are joining with the government to boost financing for micro entrepreneurs in order to rejuvenate the tens of thousands of pandemic-hit micro and small enterprises.