Biman Bangladesh Airlines has initiated a series of precautionary inspections across its entire Boeing Dreamliner fleet to ensure safety and operational integrity.

Just ten banks, both state-owned and private, account for 71 percent of all non-performing loans (NPLs) in the country’s banking sector.

Beijing has far more at stake in Iran besides just oil. China has not only benefited from importing heavily discounted Iranian crude, it has inched up its strategic infrastructure investments into the country since the duo signed a $400 billion pact in 2021. If the regime in Tehran is severely weakened or changes, China also will lose a key diplomatic lever in the Middle East.

Among many other things, the current interim government is pro-reform in many sectors. Unfortunately, there is almost no reflection of this in the recently presented budget.

Mohammad Manjur, along with 22 other fishermen, ventured out into the Bay of Bengal in the early hours of June 12, just after a 58-day fishing ban was lifted.

Bangladesh will propose to provide duty facilities to the US under a multilateral trading mechanism to retain low tariffs, as the 90-day pause of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs will come to an end on July 8.

The interim government is formulating a distressed asset management ordinance that could pave the way for a state-owned corporation to buy and trade troubled assets from banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs).

The Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (Idra) has appointed audit firms to carry out special audits of 15 life insurance companies for the 2022-2024 period to uncover possible irregularities as claim settlements continued to mount.

He says at a press briefing at the ERF

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Chattogram port has set a new record for container handling, surpassing last year's total even before the current fiscal year ends in June, according to a statement by the Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) yesterday.

The interim government has planned to nearly double its public food storage capacity to 37 lakh tonnes in the next fiscal year.

NBR faces Tk 141,000 crore June target; analysts cite target impossible

Iran-Israel conflict threatens Bangladesh RMG with rising costs; new BGMEA president outlines challenges

Bangladesh's banking provision shortfall soared six-fold to Tk 170,655 crore, due to soaring bad loans

The costs of chartering tankers to move oil from the Middle East to Asia have climbed and ship bookings have slowed as the Israel-Iran conflict fuels worries of potential disruptions, industry sources told Reuters on Monday.

There is a growing debate in Bangladesh over whether banks’ heavy investment in treasury securities, instead of lending to the private sector, reflects a failure of the sector. After all, we have long understood that banks are supposed to lend to businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals to help drive economic growth. With private sector credit growth dwindling at 7.5 percent, some are calling for penalties or restrictions on banks that invest in treasury securities.

Bangladesh's total debt reached Tk 1,944,171 crore by December 2024, increasing debt servicing pressure

Overall imports by the USA from the world also increased by 10.65% in the period