Bring idle power plants back on
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SPOTLIGHT / Govt to buy 70,000 tonnes of fertiliser for Aman season
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Steelmakers squeezed by higher costs, weak demand
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Economy
Titumir blames AL govt for energy crisis, high inflation
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Economy
Vietnam’s growth story holds lessons for Bangladesh
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Clean energy key to garment sector’s competitiveness: EU envoy
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Organisation News
Price of bottled soybean oil rises by Tk 5 a litre
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Business
Govt to buy 70,000 tonnes of fertiliser for current Aman season
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Business
Contracts of Agrani, BDBL, BASIC Bank managing directors cancelled
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Business
18,000 customers apply to withdraw Tk 1,300 crore from Sammilito Islami Bank
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Business
BTRC moves to build Telecom Tower
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission plans to build a Tk 200 crore building in the capital as its head office. The BTRC has recently sought the Telecom Division's permission to spend Tk 100 crore from its own revenue on the 13-storey Telecom Tower.
16 January 2016
Challenges to banks' good governance
BANGLADESH Bank is committed to establishing good governance practices in banks and financial institutions besides fulfilling its core objectives like employment maximisation and price stability in the country.
13 January 2016
Stop setting up SEZ in Habiganj arable lands
Speakers at a views-exchange meeting yesterday heavily criticised Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza),
13 January 2016
Banks borrow from BB after a four-year gap
After a gap of more than four years, some commercial banks have recently borrowed money from the central bank through repo auction.
13 January 2016
BB lines up $200m green fund for textile, leather makers
Bangladesh Bank is set to form a $200 million fund to provide low-cost loans to textile and leather industries for switching to
12 January 2016
EBL Nest: a hotbed of creativity
As is common in big institutions, ideas of those lower down the hierarchy tend to get lost.
12 January 2016
Smuggling hurting economy: SK Sinha
Chief Justice SK Sinha yesterday said smuggling was affecting the country's economy.
8 January 2016
Economic growth to keep up momentum: WB
Bangladesh's economic growth will keep up its momentum this fiscal year despite pressure on the budget from a salary hike for
7 January 2016
Users must be compensated for call drops: Tarana
Mobile phone users will have to be compensated for every case of call drop and network failure, State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim said yesterday.
6 January 2016
Indian state banks likely sold dollars to stem rupee fall
State-owned banks likely sold dollars on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India to prevent the local currency from weakening further, three
4 January 2016
BTRC to study internet service costs to regulate prices
The telecom regulator is going to analyse the cost components in providing internet services, to determine a pricing guideline for the
4 January 2016
Little cheer for state banks in 2015
State-owned commercial banks saw their operating profits decline 4.69 percent year-on-year in 2015 owing to low credit growth and
4 January 2016
More banks found paying zero tax in UK
Two more investment banks have reported paying zero tax in Britain in 2014, prompting the opposition Labour party to urge the
3 January 2016
Mobile top-up retailers may go on strike for commission hike
The association of mobile phone top-up and banking vendors yesterday threatened to go for a strike if their seven-point demands,
3 January 2016
Banks' capital base strengthens
Banks' overall capital base went up 6.58 percent in the third quarter of 2015 from three months earlier as the asset quality of private
3 January 2016
Low-cost loans, lands a must to boost investment: MCCI
The leaders of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) demanded a single-digit interest rate on bank loans, low-
3 January 2016
Poverty down, not inequality
Economic initiatives helped reduce poverty in Bangladesh but inequality could not be reduced as the two different concepts should be
2 January 2016
Banks saw slim profits in 2015
Banks managed to log in profits for 2015 despite a tough start to the year by way of political turmoil for the first
2 January 2016
3G brings a boom to telecom
The telecom industry added an average of 40,000 new 3G connections a day to their networks in the passing year, according to its regulator.
30 December 2015
Merge Teletalk, BTCL to make profitable entity: Joy
The prime minister's ICT adviser has directed the Posts and Telecommunications Division to take steps to merge the two loss-making
30 December 2015