Chilahati land port yet to be functional

The Chilahati land port in Nilphamari's Domar upazila is still to become operational six years after its inauguration
18 December 2017

Insurance fair begins in Sylhet on Friday

A two-day insurance fair will begin in Sylhet on Friday with a view to raising people's trust in insurers.
18 December 2017

Data usage shoots up

The use of international internet bandwidth by Bangladesh soared 73.38 percent year-on-year to 456 gigabits per
18 December 2017

Real estate sales picking up

Realtors are expecting the property market to flourish in 2018 as sales have finally started to pick up this year upon
18 December 2017

Another non-bank falls prey to graft, loan irregularities

Corruption and loan irregularities by board members are pushing yet another financial institution towards the brink
18 December 2017

BTRC floats tender for tower radiation measuring tools

The telecom regular yesterday called an international tender to purchase radiation measurement equipment to assess public health
17 December 2017

Realtors call for cutting registration fees of flats

Realtors yesterday once again urged the government to reduce registration fee, taxes and other charges to help low and middle-income families buy homes at reduced cost.
17 December 2017

Board gives Tk 17cr to ease cash crunch

The newly reconstituted board of Farmers Bank has injected Tk 17 crore into the bank to help the trouble-hit lender deal with the
17 December 2017

Eskayef focuses on courage, ethics at annual conference

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals organised its annual conference for 2017 with the theme “Win the race through repeated actions with courage
17 December 2017

Agrani spurns BB, keeps open Canada exchange house

Agrani Bank has kept open a thoroughly loss-making exchange house in Canada for the last one and half years by defying Bangladesh
16 December 2017

NKorean hackers behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, SKorean newspaper reports

South Korea’s spy agency said North Korean hackers were behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges this year in which some 7.6 billion won ($6.99 million) worth of cryptocurrencies were stolen, a newspaper reports.
16 December 2017

Muhith again defends allowing new banks

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday defended the decision to allow opening of new banks, saying the lenders that are not doing well would automatically merge.
12 December 2017

Economic corridor in southwest will bump up growth: ADB

The implementation of the proposed Southwest Bangladesh Economic Corridor (SWBEC) will enable the region's economic output to hit
12 December 2017

Islami Bank lends Tk 315cr bending rules

Islami Bank Bangladesh disbursed loans amounting to Tk 315 crore to Unilliance Textiles violating rules, jeopardising the interests of
12 December 2017

Netherlands tops new ranking of countries that make the world a better place

The Netherlands has emerged the world leader in a new index that aims to distinguish itself by measuring a country not by its own prosperity, but by its contribution to the "common good of humanity."
12 December 2017

Philippine bank RCBC accuses Bangladesh of heist ‘cover-up’

The Philippines bank through which $81 million stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank was channelled in February 2016 has accused Dhaka’s monetary authority of covering up its negligence and demanded that it stop making the bank a “scapegoat.”
12 December 2017

Alamgir, Chisty barred from raising shares in Farmers Bank

Bangladesh Bank has shot down requests from former Farmers Bank Chairman Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir and Audit Committee
11 December 2017

NRB Commercial restructures board

Unsettled NRB Commercial Bank yesterday restructured its board of directors in a move that is expected to help restore corporate
10 December 2017

Sales of savings tools on the rise

Net sales of savings certificates rose 8.49 percent year-on-year to Tk 17,315 crore in the first four months of the fiscal year as savers'
9 December 2017

Bangladesh Bank, NY Fed discuss suing Manila bank for heist damages

Bangladesh's central bank has asked the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to join a lawsuit it plans to file against a Philippines bank for its role in one of the world's biggest cyber-heists, several sources say.
8 December 2017