Mobile financial service provider (MFS) bKash retained its top position as the overall best brand among the top 15 brands in Bangladesh for the fourth time successively at the 14th edition of Best Brand Award 2022.

Faisal Khan, director of Summit Group, has been elected as president of the Bangladesh Independent Power Producers Association (BIPPA) for a two-year team.

Alihussain Akberali, chairman and chief executive officer of Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (BSRM) Group of Companies, was recently honoured with the highest taxpayer award by the Chattogram Income Tax Department as the best taxpayer of Chattogram district in the individual taxpayer category.

Four people won motorbikes by making the highest weekly scores in the “10 Takar Dour” game played on the app of Nagad.

Queen South Textile Mills, a listed knitted, dyed and finished cotton producer, is going to install a salt recovery system that will reduce its production cost and improve profitability.

Banglalink, a mobile network operator in Bangladesh, yesterday launched its eSIM product to further simplify its customers’ digital lifestyles.

ACI in association with its diversified business units and subsidiaries has organised a three-day programme to display products for foreign business delegates. 

SME Foundation and Aspire to Innovate (a2i) yesterday announced that they will jointly develop over 8,250 digital centres across the country as one-stop service centres for local small and medium-sized entrepreneurs.

In conversation with Sabur Khan, president of the Association of the Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP) and chairman of Daffodil International University (DIU).

RFL Group opened its second bicycle factory in Rangpur’s Gangachara upazila to meet the growing demand in both local and export markets.

A group of volunteers of Bidyanondo Foundation took up an initiative to reduce plastic pollution on the island of St Martins on December 12. Under the project, a "Plastic Exchange Store" has been set up in the island in collaboration with the district administration.

A seminar on "Legal Profession: Challenges and the Art of Advocacy" was organised by the Department of Law of North South University on the campus on December 9, said a press release.

Nagad, the mobile financial service provider of Bangladesh Postal Department, has recently been declared by the National Board of Revenue as the third highest VAT-paying company for fiscal year 2021-2022 in the service category, said a press release. 

Textile and apparel manufacturer Rising Group has celebrated its 25th founding anniversary recently. 

Unilever Bangladesh has been ranked as the most preferred employer based on a survey conducted by Universum, a Stockholm-based employer branding agency. 

Rupayan City, a subsidiary of Rupayan Group, signed an agreement with North South Society to develop a “luxury city” on the latter’s 46 bighas of land at Block-N adjacent to Bashundhara Sports Complex near Purbachal Express Highway.

The winners of the Daraz Presents Smartphone Photography Competition Bangladesh@50” were announced today.

The members of Impact Foundation Bangladesh Board of Trustees have unanimously elected Enam Ahmed Chaudhury as the new chairman of the Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB).

Dhaka Bank and Ananta Real Estate signed an agreement in Dhaka recently over payroll services and other products such as interest or profit bearing accounts, loans and credit cards on preferential terms for the latter’s employees. 

Transcom Digital launched a refrigerator, a washing machine and three microwave ovens at a Hitachi Star Night 2022 at International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka recently.