Stocks in Bangladesh fell for the second consecutive day today as the investors feared the rising fuel prices may leave a negative impact on the listed manufacturing companies.

The Bangladeshi taka has depreciated further against the US dollar, hitting Tk 95 on the interbank platform today.

The country’s leading online travel agent ShareTrip has celebrated its third anniversary together with its partner and stakeholder organisations through a grand award ceremony.

This is the country’s second social loan principles (SLP)-based financing, the HSBC said in a statement.

The Local Government Covid-19 Response and Recovery Project will benefit 39.9 million urban residents in all eight divisions, the World Bank said in a statement today.

Businesses today agreed to implement the government’s instruction to go for zone-wise weekly shut down of industries to save electricity and continue production in mills and factories.

Asian Paints Bangladesh launched Color Next-2022 on August 6 with a grand function organised at Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden in the capital.

The cost of fuels for Plummy Fashions Ltd, the world's greenest knitwear factory located in Narayanganj, will go up by 25 per cent owing to Saturday’s more than 50 per cent hike in the price of petroleum products.

The government should continue giving subsidies to the agriculture sector to ensure food security and shun imports, economists said today.

Physical infrastructure needs to be built and the capacity and efficiency of the workforce should be enhanced to implement the Delta Plan the government has taken for economic growth and climate resilience, analysts said today.

Sri Lanka is considering a restructure of local and sovereign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, as the island nation battles its worst financial crisis in its independent history.

In the weeks that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, western Europe's big economies began to falter. But further east it was still boom-time thanks to double-digit wage hikes and generous state handouts in some countries.

Eleven Bangladeshi and six Turkish companies have come together to establish the new Bangladesh-Türkiye Business Forum (BTBF) at a meeting hosted by the Turkish embassy in Dhaka.

Businesses today expressed concern over the production in the industrial units because of the ongoing load-shedding, low gas pressure and high energy price.

Mobile phone operator Banglalink registered double-digit revenue growth in the second quarter of 2022.

Banks can now show their highest limit of capital market exposure on the basis of the stock like instruments’ purchasing price of instead of their market value.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) is taking steps to launch a new board for start-ups so that they can raise funds from the stock market.

The Bangladesh Bank today slightly tightened its loan rescheduling policy of defaulted loans after facing criticism from different corners.

Sprint, a brand of Apex, has signed Bangladesh national football team skipper Jamal Bhuyan as its brand ambassador for the third consecutive year.

Grameenphone has been honoured with the Digital Nation Award by the GSMA for democratising connectivity and digitally empowering communities.