Ahsan Habib

Grameenphone’s net profits soared 25.8 per cent year-on-year to Tk 1,070 crore in the first quarter of the year driven by data revenue and cost-efficient programmes despite operating an increasingly challenging environment.

Hardly anyone turns up at the National Parliament House these days to get some fresh in the evenings.

In a first for Bangladesh, listed companies are using virtual platforms to hold annual general meetings as part of their business continuity plans while avoiding mass gatherings and maintain social distancing in the face of coronavirus outbreak in the country.

In the fight against coronavirus, two important facets have come out to help protect against the highly contagious, lethal pathogen: hand hygiene and the hygiene of frequently touched surfaces.

The stock market regulator has no right to set the criteria for issuing new stock brokerage licences; rather, the bourses can exert their authority to do so as per the demutualisation rules, stock brokers said.

At the turn of the year, sweet makers were impatient for the month of April to arrive.

Since April 1, Farhana Nazira is having trouble sleeping.

With a heavy heart, dairy farmer Mohammad Rajib on Sunday emptied the pails of milk he got from his 14 cows into a manure pit.

Local pharmaceuticals have produced a drug called Favipiravir -- an anti-flu and viral infection medication -- said to be effective in the treatment of coronavirus patients in China.

Stocks delivered their worst first quarter of a year as nervous investors went for massive selloffs, initially prompted by anti-market measures and then by the fast-spreading coronavirus, which dealt a heavy blow to the economy and businesses at home and abroad.

The stock market regulator is set to award new licences for brokerage houses to any firms, including foreign ones, in order to attract more investors to the market.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has asked banks in the eurozone to not pay any dividend in order to boost their capacity to absorb losses that will invariably take place for the global coronavirus pandemic that has brought the world down on its knees.

Despite being hit by the fallout of the coronavirus, Bangladesh’s corporate giants are not sitting idle as they have joined the government’s efforts by enhancing supplies to the ill-equipped health sector and extending helping hand to the low-income people who are facing existential crisis because of the lockdown.

Globally, stock market investors are looking to cash out their shares. It’s the same here in Bangladesh -- except they are not finding any takers.

Junk and some over-valued stocks were the real winners of the capital market regulator’s move on Thursday to set a new floor price to thwart a meltdown in the bourse amid the heightened coronavirus fears.

There is a Spanish proverb that goes along the lines of pouring water on a drowned mouse, which means putting in more resources into a losing battle.

BD Paints, a relatively new entrant to the Bangladesh’s paint landscape, plans to raise Tk 20 crore from the capital market in order to ramp up its production capacity -- even though about 60 per cent of its existing capacity remains unutilised.

Farhana Hakim, once an employee of a private company, embarked on her journey as an exporter of non-traditional items like baskets and showpieces banking on mere seagrasses (locally known as hogla) and date palm leaves.

Walton Hi-Tech Industries is flying high, so it is reasonable to assume there would be a clamour for a slice of the home grown electronics giant.

The high price and a lack of awareness are the main reasons why as many as 80 per cent of the menstruating females in Bangladesh do not use sanitary napkins, leaving them susceptible to a myriad of health problems.