Bangladesh's 2025 was strong on paper: $8.20 billion in US exports, up 11.71 percent, lifting its share to 10.53 percent — inside a market that shrank 1.74 percent in value and 3.70 percent in quantity

The exhibition, to be known as the Bangladesh International Textile and Apparel Machinery Exhibition (BITMA), will be held in Dhaka every year

BPGMEA President Shamim Ahmed said the plastic industry depends heavily on uninterrupted electricity

Renata said it aims to build a reputation in Portugal for quality and reliability, as in other European markets

Under the deal, 97 percent of Bangladesh's goods will get preferential market access to South Korea

Bangladesh’s merchandise exports declined by nearly one percent year-on-year in July, the first month of the current fiscal year, due to a sluggish performance in garment shipments.

Factories run below capacity while new plants await gas, casting doubt over investment, employment

At least 158 factories shut in Gazipur since May 2025

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has requested all businesses to complete the transition from their old business identification number (BIN) to the newly assigned BIN by November 30 of this year, following the restructuring of VAT Commissionerates aimed at strengthening tax administration and improving taxpayer services.

Price pressures spread across a wider range of goods and services in Bangladesh in June this year, signalling that inflation became more broad-based even as price trends varied across different categories.

Bangladesh’s latest external sector numbers deserve closer scrutiny than the reassuring headline of rising remittances suggests. A closer reading reveals an economy gradually losing one of its traditional sources of resilience: steady inflows of concessional foreign financing.

Bangladesh is set to launch a National Rating System (NRS) that will, for the first time, give every government and private institution a standardised score based on how well it manages IT, information and cybersecurity.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday dismissed as “untrue” reports claiming that garment factories were shutting down because of gas shortages.

The government should speed up domestic gas exploration to expand supply and reduce the country’s reliance on costly imports, according to economists, as the prolonged shortage hurts private investment, industrial output and export competitiveness.

The issue is not whether businesses should pay tax. The real question is whether gross sales or gross receipts (essentially, turnover) are an appropriate basis for determining tax liability, particularly for small and low-margin enterprises

SM Masuduzzaman Robin, special correspondent of Jamuna Television, was elected president, while Faruk Hossain, special correspondent of The Daily Inqilab, was elected general secretary

However, the July export figure is 12.49% higher than that of June

While remittances continue to support foreign exchange earnings, the simultaneous decline in foreign loan commitments and disbursements, coupled with rising debt repayments, points to a tightening external financing environment

A nationwide social movement is needed to speed up the adoption of renewable energy in Bangladesh, Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, adviser to the prime minister on finance and planning, said on Saturday.

The government has allowed the import of green chilli to increase supply and cool prices, Agriculture Minister Mohammed Aminur Rashid said yesterday.