DSEX gained 12.74 points, turnover 6%

Commerce adviser made the call in a meeting with top executives in Tokyo

These items will be sold through mobile trucks at 25 locations in Dhaka

The plant, with an annual production capacity of 3,300 tonnes, will be installed and commissioned at Olympic’s Lolati factory in Sonargaon, Narayanganj

DSEX gains 20.68 points as of 11:30 am  

The Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners and Vanaspati Manufacturers Association has reassured consumers and traders that there is no supply shortage of bottled edible oil in the local market.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has withdrawn an order on investigating fund transfers of RACE Asset Management PLC while returning the right to manage the funds to the asset manager.

Credit card transactions increased significantly at home and abroad in December last year as Bangladesh continued to embrace digital financial solutions.

Lub-rref (Bangladesh) posted higher profits in the second quarter of the 2024-25 fiscal year but saw its revenue decline year-on-year.

A flood of presidential trade policy announcements has kept US automakers on edge since Donald Trump returned to the White House last month.

City Bank PLC recently signed an agreement with IFAD Motors Limited, an automotive company in Bangladesh, for their nationwide cash management solutions.

It’s crazy out there -- probably the simplest way of manifesting the existing business environment. Rapid technological advancement, increasing geopolitical tensions, mounting competition and shifting market dynamics are some of the critical factors contributing to this extremely challenging situation often summarised as VUCA -- an acronym for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

In search of a better future, Md Selim and Hasanuzzaman Hassan migrated to the US roughly over three decades ago. The brothers eventually found success in construction business there but could not ignore the urge for contributing to their homeland. 

Bangladesh’s apparel shipments to key export markets—Europe and the US—posted robust growth in the first seven months of the current fiscal year of 2024-25.

Two of the greatest minds in Bangladesh -- Dr Muhammad Yunus and Iqbal Quadir -- came together for an unconventional idea: providing mobile phones, then exorbitantly priced status symbols for the urban elite, to poor rural women in the mid-90s.

A meeting between BFIU and managing directors of the banks made the decision

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will no longer defer the deadline for submitting income tax returns, which was extended three times from its initial date in November last year.

Credit card transactions increased significantly at home and abroad in December last year.

The 17th Bangladesh International Plastic Fair 2025 was held at the Bashundhara International Convention City in Dhaka recently.

Prime Bank PLC recently signed a new payroll agreement with bKash Limited, the largest mobile financial service provider in Bangladesh.