MetLife Foundation and Swisscontact Bangladesh yesterday joined hands to launch a financial inclusion programme under which the garment workers will be able to get affordable loans and microinsurance.

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange ended marginally higher today, breaking a three-day losing streak.

Seventeen Bangladeshi textile and garment companies took part in three international summer exhibitions -- Techtextil, Texprocess and the Heimtextil -- in Germany’s Frankfort.

The government will inspect multi-storied commercial buildings (market buildings) in areas under Dhaka North and South City Corporations to strengthen the building safety measures.

The event was organised on World Motorcycle Day with the slogan of “Safe road for all” powered by Yamaha Riding Academy (YRA) at the Mohakhali bus terminal in the capital.

The envoy expressed her country’s willingness in a meeting with Bangladesh’s Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque at the secretariat in Dhaka.

The Bangladesh currency today depreciated further against the US dollar, hitting Tk 92.95 on the interbank platform.

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange declined today for the fourth consecutive day owing to persisting economic uncertainty, runaway inflation and the latest floods.

Nominal wage growth at the low skill level overall has fallen behind the headline inflation.

The wage growth in Bangladesh grew slower than the inflation rate in May.

The banks, MFS providers and payment service providers will have to find alternative ways to make their payment systems effective in the flood affected districts, including Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Kishoreganj, Netrokona, Kurigram and Rangpur.

The Bangladesh Bank today said the interested candidates for the post of managing directors of non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) have to obtain at least 20 years of working experience at banks or NBFIs.

Guardian Life has declared a bonus of Tk 60 per Tk 1,000 sum assured for its participatory policyholders for the year 2021.

Stock market index tumbled today for the second consecutive day amid low participation of investors.

The listed paint maker would invest Tk 25 lakh to establish Berger Tech Consulting Ltd.

The government should form a separate authority to ensure accountability of the public servants to curb corruption and to ensure proper use public money, Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) President Rizwan Rahman said today.

The turnover and the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dropped again today after rising for consecutive two days.

Inflation in Bangladesh rose to 7.42 per cent in May, the highest since 2014’s May.

The Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to provide banking services to the flood-hit people through branches adjacent to the areas that are still unaffected.

There is no budgetary measure to protect the limited disposable income of the middle-class which is being depleted due to high food inflation, said Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue.