Renata Limited, a listed pharmaceutical and animal healthcare product manufacturer in Bangladesh, has recommended slightly lower dividends for fiscal 2021-22 despite having registered marginally higher profits that year.

The Bangladesh Bank capped the interest rate on loans at 9 per cent and on deposits at 6 per cent for banks, and 11 per cent on loans and 7 per cent on deposits for non-bank financial institutions.  

The Rancon Group has given Tk 2 crore cash assistance to the family members of eight people, including six sailors, who died when a fishing trawler of the group sank in Karnaphuli river.

Transcom Beverages Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with Standard Chartered Bangladesh (SCB) to launch the first-ever digital collection solution with real-time reconciliation via Application Programming Interface (API) integration for the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. 

A delegation from Asian Trade Promotion Forum (ATPF), a 23-member platform of the region’s trade promoting organisations, visited the Walton headquarters in Gazipur on the outskirts of the capital city recently. 

AB Bank and GD Assist, a subsidiary of Green Delta Insurance Company, signed an agreement recently offering the lender’s cardholders up to 10 per cent discount on different services under the latter’s health package. 

The government targets making available 160 grams of meat a day and 208 eggs a year for per person by 2041, said Monjur Mohammad Shahjada, director general of the Department of Livestock Services.

Mobile internet users in Khulna City Corporation said they faced difficulties in using mobile internet for five hours since 1.30 pm today.

Bangladesh has made limited progress in export diversification because of the absence of integrated policy and slow implementation of current strategies, experts said.

The Embassy of Denmark in Bangladesh has hosted a five-day exhibition, called ‘Going Green’, at Bay’s Edge Gallery in Dhaka to highlight green solutions that can support sustainable and inclusive economic growth.

Textile millers today demanded uninterrupted gas supply to keep production running.

A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be visiting Dhaka from October 26 till November 9 this year to start discussions with the Bangladeshi authorities on economic and financial reforms and policies.

Authorities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines today (October 21, 2022) suspended written tests for recruitment in several posts at the national flag carrier after the question papers got leaked ahead of the tests.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said the prices of daily essentials in the country have not increased much considering the global situation.

Md Zahangir Hossain, a resident of Baro Banglot village under Kalukhali upazila in Rajbari, once paid a human trafficker Tk 6 lakh to smuggle him into Europe but ultimately ended up in India, where he spent five months working as a labourer.

Bangladesh’s tea production surged to a record high of 14.74 million kilogrammes (kgs) in September this year, according to state-run Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB).

The demand for large-screen and premium-branded televisions has picked up in Bangladesh as sports-loving fans are gearing up to watch cricket and football world cups.    

Garment factories must raise awareness about public health and hygiene issues and adopt preventive measures and best practices to improve wellness of the workforce, said speakers at a discussion recently.  

Grameenphone Ltd’s profit rose 6 per cent year-on-year to Tk 907 crore in the July-September quarter of 2022, driven by higher revenue. 

The Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) yesterday committed to promoting investment in Bangladesh and sought support from the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Bida) to this end.