The recent diesel price hike has made service providers increase charges for harvesting the largest rice crop, Boro, as well as for irrigating farmlands, and threshing maize -- leaving farmers struggling to cope.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Sabekunnahar Mitu, a young woman from Faridpur, had vague notions, but no concrete plans of becoming an entrepreneur. An unlikely event made her curious about eco-friendly handicrafts, and she now not only makes a good profit from her venture but also employs around 400 people in her locality.

A Bangladeshi multinational company, MGH Group, is going to construct the country’s first privately built container terminal at Chattogram port on the bank of the Karnaphuli River in Patenga.

They raised the charges because of the diesel price hike, says Bangladesh Inland Container Depots Association (BICDA)

They also called for a private-sector administrator, at a meeting with the commerce minister

A total of 20 directors were elected

The proposal was placed at a pre-budget seminar in Dhaka for fiscal year 2026-27

Bangladesh has imported a large volume of wheat within nine and a half months of this fiscal year, exceeding the total amount imported in the previous year.

The association sat with the commerce minister today

UNI Global is an international platform of trade unions.

The funding comes from Swiss market access platform Symbiotics

The event will bring together multiple segments of the automotive industry under one roof

The capital market in Bangladesh faces persistent problems with trust

Bangladesh's Starlink service is currently among the most responsive in the Asia-Pacific, but high package prices make it unaffordable for ordinary households, according to a new report by Ookla, a global internet performance-tracking firm.

From now on, interest rates will no longer be determined solely based on banks’ quoted rates

This is the second extension of the deadline

Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC has placed its Managing Director Md Omar Faruk Khan on leave for more than one and a half months.

The war in the Middle East could weigh on Bangladesh’s economy, disrupting output in key sectors, particularly the readymade garment (RMG) industry, according to a study by the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (Sanem)

The expenditure hit Tk 1.07 lakh crore, down from Tk 1.15 lakh crore in the previous year

The last interim government was legitimate, but it was not elected and lacked both economic philosophy and planning