The government should allow more private companies to build effluent treatment plants (ETPs) inside Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), said Shaheen Ahmed, chairman of Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA), yesterday.

The new interest rate-setting method introduced by the central bank is going to benefit depositors as well as people who take consumer loans. 

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) will have to pay taxes from fiscal year 2023-24 if they do not keep their income from service charges in a revolving fund.

The board of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) yesterday elected Ahsanul Alam as the chairman of the shariah-based lender.

Bangladesh considers the United Kingdom (UK) as an important export destination and it is time for diversifying the export basket, as the bilateral trade is currently concentrated on a few specific items, FBCCI President Md Jashim Uddin said today.

Pran Agro is going to raise funds of Tk 262.5 crore form institutional investors and high-net worth people by issuing bonds.

The coupon rate will be 8.5-9%

The coupon rate of the bond is 8.88%

The UK's landmark Developing Countries Trading Scheme comes into effect today

FBCCI president says at event on Bangladesh-UK trade

Premier Cement Managing Director Mohammed Amirul Haque says

Their two-day tour began on June 18

They want to sell sugar at Tk 150 a kg from June 22

Bangladesh’s export earnings from mango have jumped this year as local growers are supplying an improved quality of the popular fruit through both private and public initiatives.

Operations at Payra port have slowed down significantly following the temporary stoppage of coal imports for the Payra Thermal Power Plant in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

Rawhide traders and farmers at the grassroots level are expected to receive better prices from the sale of animal skins during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha as the business outlook for leather and leather goods for 2023 is still bright despite the lingering uncertainty at home and abroad. 

Dhaka Taxes Bar Association staged a demonstration and besieged the National Board of Revenue (NBR) building at Agargaon in Dhaka for a couple of hours yesterday demanding cancellation of a newly announced draft tax return preparer (TRP) rule. 

The government is set to miss its development spending target as well as the goal of raising the use of foreign loans by a large margin in the outgoing financial year, official figures showed.

The central bank is going to roll out the country’s own debit card by August to allow travellers to make payments at home as well as in India, said Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder yesterday. 

Bangladesh has a huge skincare and colour cosmetics market that is ruled by fake products and illegally imported items, said an official.