Jamuna Bank has recently witnessed the appointment of a deputy managing director.

Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (GDP) may grow by as high as 5.6 per cent in the current fiscal year, subject to three factors, said the World Bank yesterday.

Eurozone consumer prices rose in March, official data showed on Wednesday, fuelled by a sudden jump in energy prices and a pick-up in activity despite the lingering pandemic in Europe. Inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro reached 1.3 per cent, up from 0.9 per cent in February, the EU’s Eurostat agency said.

Germany’s unemployment rate held steady in March at six percent for the third month in a row, the federal labour agency said Wednesday, despite a sharp rise in coronavirus infections.

Saudi Arabia announced plans Tuesday to pump investments worth $3.2 trillion into the national economy by 2030, roping in the oil-reliant kingdom’s biggest companies in a major new economic diversification push.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call for a dramatic and more permanent shift in the direction of the US economy with a roughly $2 trillion package to invest in traditional projects like roads and bridges alongside tackling climate change and boosting human services like elder care.

World Bank in its latest twice-a-year regional update has raised question whether remittance flow in the South Asian countries has really increased.

Bangladesh may see an increase in investment from South Korea in the coming years in the areas such as infrastructure, electronics and information and communication technology, speakers said at a webinar yesterday.

The cabinet committee on purchase yesterday approved purchase of another 50,000 tonnes of rice from an Indian supplier.

Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has hiked prices of onion, edible oil and sugar for open market sales ahead of the month of Ramadan.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) today said mobile phone users may face disruption in getting services from Thursday evening to the next morning as it will reallocate spectrum among mobile operators.

American businesses have lauded Bangladesh for its ‘great going’ and they expressed their interest to go for increased investment in the south Asian economy.

The cabinet committee on purchase today approved purchase of another 50,000 tonnes of rice from an Indian supplier.

The country's stock market nosedived today by 1.76 per cent due to the fear of deterioration of the pandemic situation.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission today dissolved the board of directors of Fareast Finance due to its failure of making profits for consecutive four years.

The Bangladesh Bank has formed a Tk 500 crore fund in order to help new entrepreneurs aged between 21 and 45 years start businesses.

Startup Bangladesh Ltd, flagship venture capital fund of the ICT ministry, announced the first series of investments of Tk 15 crore or $1.75 million to seven startups today.

South Asia's prospect for an economic rebound is firming up as the area's growth is set to increase by 7.2 per cent in 2021 and 4.4 per cent in 2022, World Bank said in its twice-a-year-regional update today.

Vietnam’s economy continued to expand in the first three months of the year, officials said Monday, thanks to the government’s success in containing the worst of the coronavirus.

The cost of global warming will far outweigh the cost of rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions, more than 700 economists from around the world said Tuesday in an unprecedented call to climate action.