After Padma Bank, ICB Islamic Bank appears to be the next in line to be absorbed by a stronger bank under the central bank’s roadmap to clean up the banking sector and bring in corporate governance.

Customers spent Tk 2,678 crore in Jan this year, up from Tk 2,674 crore in Dec 2023

There are over 4,000 orchards dotting the district

The central bank said in quarterly review on money and exchange rate

Around 1,000 workers of Gulshan Spinning Mill in gazipur's Sreepur upazila blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for over two and a half hours demanding an increase in salary

It hit $19.45 billion on March 27, down from $19.98 billion on March 20

Navana Pharmaceuticals has received approval from the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) to issue a partial convertible bond worth Tk 150 crore

The government can generate additional revenue of Tk 30,000 crore in the next fiscal year of 2024-25 if it reduces existing tax exemptions for various sectors, according to a noted economist.

Bangladesh’s stock market has been going through a bear run for the last two months despite petering out of election-linked uncertainty, signaling that the worries about the macroeconomic challenges are far from over.

The government has extended its contracts with Summit Group’s three gas-based power plants for the purchase of electricity in the next five years.

Singer Bangladesh, one of the leading manufacturers and retailers of home appliances in the country, has begun manufacturing products at its new factory, becoming the first entity to do so inside Bangladesh Special Economic Zone (BSEZ) at Araihazar in Narayanganj.

It becomes the first plant in Araihazar economic zone

The plants are located in Dhaka’s Ashulia, Narshingdi’s Madhabdi and Cumilla’s Chandina

Song Shin Leather (BD) Ltd, a Chinese company, will invest $6 million to set up a leather processing factory at the Cumilla Export Processing Zone

The government has urged industry owners to pay workers' salaries and festival bonuses before the start of the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays.

Esquire Knit Composite PLC's board has approved an investment of Tk 5 crore in its subsidiary L'Esquire Ltd.

Dhaka stocks dipped in the morning trading today, marking the third consecutive day of decline due to selling pressure. 

Speaking about Bangladesh, the ILO said its governing body took note of the report on the progress made with the implementation of the roadmap of actions and was mindful of its 2021-26 timeline for the labour sector reform as well as of the results yet to be achieved.

Traders opened LCs worth $247.26 million in July-January of the current fiscal year of 2023-24, up 25.81 percent year-on-year, central bank data showed.

The rising price level in Bangladesh has left the middle and low-income segments in a severe cost of living crunch, with inflation hovering above 9 percent since March last year.