Language barriers and dubious accommodations have emerged the biggest obstacles in travel, according to a global survey which aims to gauge how adventurous and fearless travelers are.

There are some countries which largely depend on Bangladesh for medical tourists and selling health service related equipment, experts said yesterday.

Bangladesh's capital market stepped into a new era yesterday after the stock market regulator gave the green light to the proposal from a Chinese consortium to become the Dhaka Stock Exchange's strategic partner.

ACI led the fall in the Dhaka Stock Exchange yesterday as the conglomerate's first quarter earnings plunged by more than 70 percent year-on-year.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said education, health, power, energy, and infrastructure would get priority in the upcoming budget.

Private sector credit growth finally hit the brakes in March on the back of the central bank's efforts to curb aggressive lending by banks.

Rice prices have finally started dropping off in the face of ample supply brought about by huge imports and arrivals of the fresh staple from the Boro harvests, said farmers and traders.

A weeklong vacation has brought life to the country's tourism industry in a period which is generally considered a dull season for hotel businesses and domestic airlines.

Ibn Sina Trust, one of the sponsor shareholders of Islami Bank Bangladesh, is set to sell off its entire 2.24 percent stake in the bank within the next 30 days.

Mosharraf Hussain has been elected the chairman of Jamuna Bank.

Misuse of funds and rising exchange rate are pushing many short-term foreign loans into the overdue territory and in so doing posing a concern for the economy, analysts said yesterday.

Only 26 lakh mobile phone users have embraced 4G technology since its rollout nine weeks ago although top operators expanded network robustly on the expectation of bringing more customers under the fourth-generation service quickly.

Mobile phone subscribers will have to wait around three more months to be able to switch operators every 90 days while retaining

India has made a strong pitch for increased lending by the World Bank and its affiliates for Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, in a meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund held in Washington on Saturday.

The national exchequer gets Tk 51 of every Tk 100 spent by a mobile user, leaving less money for the operators to develop network and run business smoothly, the GSMA said yesterday.

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange fell yesterday after gains for two consecutive days as investors booked profits largely in the banking and telecom securities.

The telecom regulator has directed mobile operator Robi Axiata to deposit Tk 18.93 crore as value-added tax on 4G licence fee within April 25.

Mobile phone operators have invested around $1 billion for starting fourth generation (4G) mobile service in the country so far, Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh (AMTOB) says.

The BTRC is finalising a new set of regulations under which the telecom and internet service providers will have to pay the penalty for

The owners of CNG-run auto-rickshaws will be brought under the tax net in the upcoming fiscal year, said National Board of Revenue