Mahmudul Hasan

Due to economic hardships brought on by the pandemic, many people flocked to cards to make ends meet, purchasing supplies from groceries to home appliances.

The economy is apparently sailing safely through the turbulent times amid additional fund allocated to tackle the coronavirus crisis and anaemic growth of tax collection as revenue expenditure fell 3.66 per cent in the first quarter.

Long-term unemployment of women garment workers adversely affects their economic and social empowerment, according to a new brief from the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

The number of mobile phone subscribers rose 2.4 per cent year-on-year to 16.81 crore in October, data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission showed yesterday.

The government is looking to produce 42 per cent higher corn at 56.93 lakh tonnes in the current fiscal year to meet the growing demand for grains in the feed industry.

The government has decided to introduce a Green Factory Award to ensure workplace safety for the workers, safeguard the environment from pollution and maintain compliance with international standards.

Daraz registered a surge in sales during its Singles’ Day shopping juggernaut as it received one lakh online orders worth Tk 25 crore in the first hour of the campaign.

The number of internet users in Bangladesh expanded by 3.3 crore between 2010 and 2019, bringing another 20 per cent of the population online, according to a recent report.

Frequent call drops and disruptions have been a bane for a large chunk of the country’s more than 16 crore mobile subscribers in the first eight months of the year.

On November 11 last year, online shopping platform Daraz sold Tk 8.5 crore-worth products within the first 45 minutes of a 24-hour shopping event stemming from a marketing idea on encouraging people to spend money on themselves.

Bangladesh has fared badly in mobile data speed, ranking below all South Asian nations except for Afghanistan, at a quality listing of global mobile and broadband internet networks.

Robi Axiata has reached the milestone of five crore subscribers in a testament to the telecom operator’s growing influence in the local market.

Hundreds of restaurants in the capital have already been permanently closed as the owners are unable to cover operational costs while suffering from decreased revenue amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The National Board of Revenue’s (NBR) efforts to make Facebook fall in line with local regulations have started to pay off as the global social media giant handed about Tk 1.7 crore in value-added tax for the months of July and August.

No stone would be left unturned to recover the Tk 7,689 crore default loans and people involved in the scams will be exposed, said the newly appointed chairman of BASIC Bank.

Creativity takes courage, according to Henri Matisse, a famous French artist from the 1800s known for both his use of colour and fluid and original draughtsmanship.

It is natural to assume that whenever disasters strike, a country’s hospitality industry is usually the first to feel its effects but is the last to recover, since expenses here are deemed non-essential.

With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continuing to force consumers from around the world to shop from home, online sales in Bangladesh were expected to see turbocharged growth similar to international trends.

Binge, the country’s first internet protocol TV (IPTV), is now coming up with Bengali original video content, buoyed by the tremendous response in the first three months of its launch.

Coronavirus is here to stay and face mask, whose use was mostly confined to medical institutions, have become a non-negotiable part of people’s everyday dress code -- a reality that has tempted clothing brands in Bangladesh to have a crack at giving an aesthetic spin to the humble piece of protective gear against airborne disease.