The textile millers today urged the government to ensure uninterrupted gas supply and not to increase its prices at a time when the garment industry is trying to recover the losses caused by the ongoing pandemic.

Dhaka Bank Ltd has recently signed an agreement with SF Group over providing payroll banking services.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to start its pre-budget meetings for the next fiscal year from February 6.

Syed Ershad Ahmed has been re-elected as the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh (AmCham) for 2021-22 tenure.

Stocks listed with the Dhaka bourse dropped by the end of yesterday’s trading session despite opening on a positive note.

Abdus Sattar, a resident of Mahishamuri village in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, was a weaver by profession like his father before him, the late Amir Chand.

Bangladesh Satellite Company has been exempted from tax payments for five years from now on income generated by Bangabandhu Satellite-1, Bangladesh’s first geostationary communication satellite launched nearly four years ago.

The Bangladesh Bank has postponed state banks’ recruitment tests scheduled to start from February 1 due to the recent spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

While foreign construction firms are using imported prefabricated modular units of steel in the country’s mega projects, Dhaka Mass Transit Company is using that made locally in the metro rail project, resting assured of their international standard.

Bangladesh’s external debt repayment has increased gradually in recent times aided by an inflow of a huge amount of foreign loans from multilateral and bilateral partners in the forms of project aid and budget support.

The central bank yesterday issued rules allowing local firms to invest in other countries in a major move towards capital liberalisation that will enhance the country’s export prospects and create jobs for Bangladeshis abroad.

The Bangladesh Bank has postponed state banks’ recruitment tests scheduled to start from February 1 due to the recent spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Factories in the Japanese Economic Zone in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj will go into production next year, said Ito Naoki, Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to start its pre-budget meetings for the next fiscal year from February 6.

Dhaka stocks dropped at the end of the day though the trading started on a positive note in the morning.

The stock market trading started with a rising trend today.

Banks and payment service providers have been asked to prepare business continuity plan (BCP) so that their operations remain unhurt during any future economic disasters like the ongoing pandemic.

Although uncertainty prevails over the country’s economy with regard to both global and domestic contexts, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday portrayed a rosy picture of it in parliament.

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has initiated a project as part of its efforts to go paperless in order to reduce hassles and cut the expenses for the bourse and its stakeholders.

The Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) and Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) yesterday requested Bangladesh Bank to extend the deadline for implementing the new rate of entry-level salaries recently fixed by the banking regulator for private banks.