Bangladesh’s readymade garment exports to the United States, the country’s largest single-market destination, grew more than 15 percent year-on-year to $7.08 billion in the January-October period, according to US government data.

Mousumi Mirdha, a resident of Mohammadpur in Dhaka, recently bought an induction cooker to cope with the ongoing gas shortage.

After years of inertia, Bangladesh’s telecom sector has begun to move again under the interim government, reopening long-stalled reform pathways even as deep structural problems continue to weigh on investment and innovation, according to Grameenphone (GP) CEO Yasir Azman.

Raising investment and taming inflation will be the main economic challenges for the next elected government, private think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.

Each bhori will cost Tk 227,856 from tomorrow

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The adviser noted that interest rates are often discussed as if there were simple solutions

In many cases, vehicle owners roam from one station to another for hours but fail to collect gas

CPD said Bangladesh is at a ‘critical juncture of its journey'

Record remittances and recovering foreign-exchange reserves offer a rare cushion, but weakening exports expose vulnerabilities

As temperatures fall and winter cold lingers longer than usual, geysers are once again emerging as a seasonal essential, with demand rising sharply across urban and semi-urban areas of Bangladesh.

Restaurant owners in Dhaka are grappling with a deepening liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) crisis, marked by soaring prices and constrained supply despite official data showing steady imports and adequate stock levels.

Former prime minister Khaleda Zia made a significant contribution to building the institutional foundation of Bangladesh’s capital market by introducing supportive policies and establishing regulatory bodies, according to market leaders.

The garment exporters, textile millers and senior officials of the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) could not reach a consensus on a proposal to impose a 20 percent safeguard duty on yarn imports, pushing the issue to the commerce ministry for a final decision.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed banks to credit inward remittances to beneficiaries’ accounts on the same day or the next business day in order to reduce delays and improve efficiency in cross-border payment processing.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) purchased $617 million from commercial banks in the first seven days of January as part of its ongoing intervention in the foreign exchange market.

Improved corporate culture at listed companies can help reduce the practice of making profit through insider trading, experts said yesterday.

Bangladesh has made notable progress in digital payments, yet it remains largely cash-dependent due to constraints, including limited interoperability, infrastructure gaps, cybersecurity risks, and low digital literacy, said the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI) yesterday.

The comment came during a meeting between leaders of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Uruguayan Ambassador to Bangladesh Alberto Guani at the association office in Dhaka.

AkijBashir Group has officially entered Bangladesh’s electrical wire and cable industry with the launch of its new brand, AkijBashir Cables, introducing the country’s first three-layer insulated electrical wire..The announcement was made at a formal ceremony at the Bangladesh-China Friends