Bangladesh’s pharmaceutical industry is urging the government to review the country’s medicine pricing policy, saying years of limited price adjustments have squeezed profitability, discouraged investment in new medicines and put increasing pressure on smaller drug makers.

They are the stock market’s dividend-free club.

Bangladesh should fast-track the signing of free trade agreements (FTAs) and preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with key trading partners to preserve its export competitiveness after graduating from the least developed country (LDC) category, the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) said yesterday.

Nahid Rahman has been promoted to the post of executive director at Bangladesh Bank, effective from June 30, 2026.

The government is operating “like the private sector, seven days a week” to clear red tape and achieve a $1 trillion economy by 2034, Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said yesterday.

Bangladesh stands at a defining moment in its economic journey. Having grown into a $510 billion economy, the country now aims to become a $1 trillion economy by 2034.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has approved the introduction of intraday trading, in a move aimed at modernising the capital market and improving trading efficiency.

The telecom regulator has upheld a Tk 3 crore administrative fine on Summit Communications Ltd, the country’s largest telecom infrastructure operator, after concluding it engaged in discriminatory bandwidth pricing.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has allowed Shinepukur Ceramics, a defaulting company of Beximco Group, to open letters of credit (LCs) for raw material imports under a special arrangement.

One in five young people in Bangladesh, nearly 86 lakh in all, is neither working, studying nor training for a job, the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2024 shows.

The minister inaugurates RSGT Bangladesh, the operator of the Patenga Container Terminal

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has extended a legal exemption allowing defaulter Shinepukur Ceramics Ltd to continue opening letters of credit (LCs) for importing raw materials, aiming to keep the company's production running and protect jobs

Bangladesh should fast-track the signing of free trade agreements (FTAs) and preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with key trading partners to preserve its export competitiveness after graduating from the least developed country (LDC) category, the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) said today

Presenting five-pronged priority agendas for urgent action, Prime Minister's Adviser on Finance and Planning Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir on Monday said the challenges faced by LDCs are a test of international solidarity and the credibility of multilateralism

Says shipping minister

Reform programmes under the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) new loan programme will be implemented gradually, taking into account the country’s political realities, Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said yesterday.

Banks are now trading the US dollar between Tk 122.70 and Tk 123.75

Businesses say the downpour has disrupted the entire supply chain

Jenson & Nicholson Packaging Ltd, an affiliate of Berger Paints Bangladesh, will invest $13.7 million in the National Special Economic Zone (NSEZ) under a land lease agreement signed with the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza) yesterday.

Bangladesh’s expatriates sent home a record $35.56 billion in the fiscal year just ended, up 17.3 percent on the previous year.