The country’s stock market rose for the second day in a row yesterday, indicating growing investor confidence as the upcoming national election nears.

The government has decided to sell properties owned by Nassa Group to clear outstanding wages and service benefits for its workers, Labour and Employment Adviser M Sakhawat Hussain said on Sunday.

The stock market regulator has rejected bond issuance proposals worth Tk 2,100 crore from several banks that had earlier received no-objection certificates from the Bangladesh Bank (BB).

Local apparel exporters have opposed the commerce ministry’s recommendation to remove duty benefits on certain yarn imports under the bonded warehouse facility.

Ahsan H Mansur attends a seminar on the Purchasing Managers Index, jointly organised by the MCCI and Policy Exchange Bangladesh

A deputy minister of Afghanistan, now in Dhaka, met commerce secretary

Each bhori of 22-carat gold will cost Tk 2.38 lakh from tomorrow

MetLife best in life insurance category, Pragati in non-life

57,203 tonnes of wheat came this time and total 220,000 tonnes will be imported

Many professionals are earning income in foreign currency, which is then remitted to Bangladesh through formal banking channels

Uralchem, a leading fertiliser manufacturing company in Russia, delivered the fertiliser

The demand was made at a joint press conference today

This is subject to court orders, said Labour and Employment Adviser M Sakhawat Hussain

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has carried out major legal reforms in the stock market, said its chairman, Khondoker Rashed Maqsood.

The US Supreme Court signaled four months into Donald Trump’s second presidential term last year its interest in shielding the Federal Reserve from political interference. When the justices on Wednesday consider the legality of his bid to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, their willingness to preserve the US central bank’s independence will be ​put to the test.

A well-functioning tax system rests on three foundational pillars: fairness, predictability and finality. While Bangladesh has made progress in expanding the tax base and modernising legislation, the lived experience of corporate taxpayers shows a persistent failure on the last two counts. Nowhere is this more evident than in the country’s regressive and repetitive tax audit practices.

The general manager, the third-highest post at the Sammilito Bank PLC, can be appointed through open competition, transfer of GMs from state banks, or specially selecting officials from the five banks being merged to form the new bank, the government has decided.

Bangladesh’s booming farm production is coming at a hidden cost of health risks, environmental damage, and long-term threats to future generations, warns eminent economist Prof Anu Muhammad.

Defaulted loans at the country’s non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) have surged to a record 37 percent, highlighting the sector’s fragile condition.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) will not change its decision about paying no profits on deposits for 2024 and 2025 at five shariah-based banks now undergoing a merger, even as depositors staged protests at a number of branches.