Untimely loading and unloading of containers has congested Chattogram port, the country’s premier seaport, with container vessels, which remain anchored due to the disruption.

Even Eid-ul-Fitr, typically a boon for remittance inflows, failed to buck the trend of sliding receipts this year.

The Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) has recently got approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to export its product directly from Bangladesh to the United States of America.

A litre of bottled soybean oil will now be sold at Tk 198, up from Tk 160, and the loose soybean oil at Tk 180 a litre, up from Tk 136.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the ICT Division of the Government of Bangladesh recently reached an agreement to launch a cybersecurity campaign for the youth and children in selected Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

Mobile financial service (MFS) providing companies are spending big in the form of cashbacks on purchases made during the ongoing Eid sales season as they are fighting a costly battle for digital payment supremacy in the country.

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Despite double-digit growth in manufacturing output, job growth has slowed down in Bangladesh alarmingly, which may raise unemployment and prevent the economy from benefitting from the abundance of working age population, official figures showed.

10 years of AMA Muhith as finance minister

Entravision MediaDonuts, a Singapore-based online advertising and technology company, has opened an office in Bangladesh as part of effort to continue its expansion in Asia in the second quarter of 2022.

Around 84 per cent of factories across Bangladesh completed distributing festival bonuses to their workers as of yesterday in anticipation of the Eid holidays which are set to begin today, according to data from Industrial Police.

Brac Bank last week signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ace Autos, the authorised distributor of China-based Great Wall Motor Company’s Haval sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in Bangladesh.

Oil prices fell on Friday, reversing in volatile trade, pulled downward by the US heating oil contract that plummeted by more than 20 per cent at one point on the day of its expiration.

Sonali Bank signed an agreement with the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs on the latter’s premises on Thursday over the disbursement of government allowance for freedom fighters.

The latest wave of Covid-19 is on the verge. The economy looks like on rebound mode, but it may take more time for the life and livelihood to return to normalcy if other things remain constant.

Amidst substantial amounts of potato production and subsequent space constraints in cold storages, a new method of stowing the spuds that does not require freezing has come as a blessing for farmers in the country’s northern districts.

Tourism business in Kuakata is expected to be booming during this Eid holiday as the most of the rooms in 130 residential hotels and motels have been booked already.

Born on January 25 in 1934 in Sylhet, Muhith played many roles in his life apart from being a finance minister. He was an economist, diplomat, freedom fighter, language movement veteran, writer and a historian.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked banks to keep their doors open and run operations on a limited scale on Saturday, a public holiday, in order to settle the increased number of financial transactions ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

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