Farmers have planted paddy on increased areas of land during the current Boro cultivation season after being encouraged by higher prices for the staple grain in the domestic market for the last one year.

South Korea is looking at bringing in investments of major Korean brands like Samsung, Hyundai and Daewoo to Bangladesh in the areas of construction, engineering, electronics and automobiles as Bangladesh is improving associated environments and expanding the market base.

An ongoing fair in Tangail to display products of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) has been far from being able to draw buyers and visitors as per expectations, frustrating participants.

State-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp is seeking $22.4 million from its insurer for a cargo ship hit by a missile in March, government officials with knowledge of the talks said, in the first major marine insurance claim from the conflict in Ukraine.

S Renganathan, group managing director of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, is scheduled to visit Bangladesh today.

Delivery  Tiger recently received a courier service licence as it looks to run  its e-commerce delivery business and collect the funds for  cash-on-delivery.

Banks are installing cash recycling machines at a faster pace as part of their efforts to provide deposit and cash withdrawal services to clients under the same platform.

My journey to obesity started when I was introduced to the executive canteen of Unilever Bangladesh in Kalurghat, Chattogram, in 1993. My weight shot up by 15 kilogrammes within a span of six months despite my efforts to discipline myself.

While most average towns in the countryside slowly wake up to brace the day, the small port town of Mongla in Bangladesh’s southwest region is already bustling with activity by 6:00am each morning.

A three-day Bangladesh Jewellery Expo-2022 opened at International Convention City Bashundhara yesterday, organised by Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus) to celebrate the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the country’s golden jubilee of independence.

The stack of complaints against mobile phone operators is increasing everyday but the authorities are having to keep those aside because of a case pending at High Court (HC).

The domestic stock market has remained flat for three straight days now as many investors are still shaky about buying shares.

The government has initiated a move to transform the growers’ markets in Rangpur into hubs for small agro entrepreneurs since they have been lying idle for more than a decade owing largely to farmers and wholesalers’ lack of interest and a propaganda carried out by a vested group.

Japanese investors in Bangladesh are facing six issues when conducting business in the country due to complicated regulations, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

A high-profile European Union (EU) delegation yesterday demanded that a labour law meant for export processing zones (EPZs) be amended by 2023 instead of 2025 for Bangladesh to be eligible for a new Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme.

Twenty-five controversial e-commerce platforms in Bangladesh were deluged with orders worth a staggering Tk 6,050 crore in just four months last year under Ponzi-like schemes that lured unsuspecting customers on the back of hefty discounts.

Bank Asia recently signed an agreement over a syndicated unsecured term loan facility for $25 million arranged by Bank Muscat based in the Sultanate of Oman.

Middle Eastern country Iraq wants to buy mango, vegetables and potato from Bangladesh.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide financial and technical support to Bangladesh for constructing cold storages in the country.

The South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (Sanem) yesterday said 53 per cent of the garment workers surveyed in a recent study by the non-profit research organisation reported that their children were not provided any online classes amid the Covid-19 pandemic.