Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Chattogram port clocked 3.1 per cent year-on-year growth in container handling in the just-concluded fiscal year, which highlighted the growing foreign trade of Bangladesh, official data showed.

With over 50 per cent of mangoes yet to be harvested, the nationwide lockdown beginning yesterday has upended the normal marketing system, upsetting the already disappointed farmers of Rajshahi region.

Microsoft, the introducer of the most widely used operating system Windows, yesterday got value added tax (VAT) registration from the National Board of Revenue (NBR), a development that would enable the revenue authority to get the tech company under its monitoring.

The price of mild steel (MS) rods has increased by Tk 1,500 per tonne in Bangladesh in the past month because of the rising cost of raw materials globally, making building houses and implementing infrastructure projects costlier.

Many garment workers faced trouble yesterday as they walked to their workplaces in absence of public transport and for not having any transport arranged by the factories on the first day of a week-long strict countrywide lockdown.

Faria Binte Zaman Momo ordered a dress online in 2015 and this was first time she bought anything from digital shops.

Just a day after parliament passed the budget, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday sought an additional assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) as the government looks to use a record amount in foreign aid in fiscal 2021-22.

European factories continued to ramp up their post-lockdown recovery in June but Asian manufacturers saw momentum weaken amid rising input costs and the reintroduction of curbs to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections, surveys showed. 

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Thursday it was important not to over-react to a rise in inflation that was likely to prove temporary during Britain's economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. 

The government, for the first time, is going to honour 23 small, medium and large companies with the "Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Industrial Award" for their contribution to industrialisation, job creation, product diversification and innovation.

RedDot Digital has unveiled a private equity fund worth Tk 15 crore called 'R-Ventures' to promote digital entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, according to a press release from the company issued yesterday.

A capacity building training programme was launched yesterday to support women-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs) do business with local and multinational corporations committed to expanding inclusive sourcing throughout their value chains. 

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) today announced closure of the stock market for the next four days just hours after the Dhaka bourse ended the day's trading with a 100-point gain.

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has sought bank account details of 11 e-commerce merchants.

Online cattle sales in the run-up to Eid-ul-Azha are expected to accelerate as the raging coronavirus infections would compel the government to whittle down the number of makeshift markets allowed each year to sell sacrificial animals.

In March 2019, Nagad started out as the mobile financial service (MFS) of the Bangladesh Post Office (BPO), and it has since been operated by Third Wave Technologies Ltd.

French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated JPMorgan’s new trading hub in Paris on Tuesday, as France pitches for more banking jobs and tries to lure finance workers looking to leave London after Brexit. Banks are spending billions of dollars beefing up their European Union operations post-Brexit to avoid disruption to some of their activities.

United Commercial Bank (UCB) yesterday announced completing 38 years of operations.

S&P Global cut its growth forecasts for some of Asia’s top economies including India, the Philippines and Malaysia on Monday, offsetting upgrades to China and South Africa and much of Latin America.

IPDC Finance in a statement yesterday announced that its revenue for 2021’s first quarter had grown 6.4 times that of the same period of 2016.