The World Bank has approved $270 million in financing to help Bangladesh recover from the flooding last year and strengthen its resilience to future climate-related disasters.

Pubali Bank PLC saw its earnings increase in the first quarter of the financial year 2025.

Bata Shoe Company (Bangladesh) Ltd’s profit doubled in the first quarter of 2025, driven by higher sales and revenue growth.

If you place a frog in cold water and gradually heat it, the frog won’t react; it just adjusts, thinking “I can handle this”. But as the temperature keeps rising, it reaches a point where the frog realises it must escape. Sadly, by then, it’s too weak to jump. It didn’t die from the heat; it died from not acting in time. That’s the “Boiling Frog Syndrome”.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has, somewhat unexpectedly, reverted to the exchange rate regime announced on December 31, 2024, effectively transitioning the country into a free-floating currency system.

The US dollar rate remained stable yesterday although Bangladesh adopted a market-based exchange rate regime the day before, giving some relief to businesses and importers.

Protesting officials and employees of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday vowed to continue their pen-down strike on Saturday, pressing a three-point demand, including the repeal of a new ordinance on restructuring the revenue administration.

Bangladesh’s economy is recovering after months of slowdown, with stability returning and confidence growing across various sectors, according to experts.

The government will take measures if mobile operators fail to reduce internet prices, said Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, the special assistant to the chief adviser with executive authority over the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and ICT.

Interest payments and subsidies have absorbed nearly half of Bangladesh’s total budget expenditure in the first seven months of the current fiscal year, underscoring growing fiscal stress and raising concerns over public finances.

Bangladesh’s transition from a least developed country (LDC) to a developing one will require a strong focus on quality, regulatory compliance, adherence to global standards, and environmental sustainability, an expert said yesterday..However, as businesses feared an erosion in duty benefi

About 2 lakh tonnes of imported goods left abandoned at Chattogram port alone for years

He went there on leave to see his ailing wife

The revenue administration should become more effective, progressive, and free of corruption, and the reform process must not be used as a tool to serve the vested interests of any particular group, protestors said.

The prime movers workers' union enforced the work abstention, protesting police assault on its president Selim Khan and two fellow workers on Tuesday

He will serve the association for the 2025–27 tenure

However, the telecom operator’s revenue falls 7% in the January-March quarter of 2025

Mastercard Economics Institute says in its report on travel trends in 2025

The protest comes in response to the government’s decision last Monday to form two new wings, the Revenue Policy Division and the Revenue Implementation Division

The shoemaker credits strong Eid sales and revenue growth