The principal amount plus interest payments for foreign debt rose to $2.81 billion this year, up from previous year’s $1.95 billion

Finds a study conducted by former Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman

National Life Insurance Company’s board has recommended a 38 percent cash dividend for 2023 even though its profit declined

The telecom regulator has decided to allow mobile phone operators to pay spectrum acquisition fees in the local currency, a relief for them as the US dollar has become costlier to a large extent.

Entrepreneurs bagged orders worth Tk 20 crore

The ERD, Feni administration organised a workshop on sustainable LDC graduation

Implementing development project with borrowed money not a good idea, he said at a debate contest of the Debate for Democracy

The event from Anandabazar Patrika brings together 50 speakers from government, business, IT, media, academia and other leaders from Bangladesh and India

175 companies from 17 countries are taking part in the show

Two Uruguayan wool exporters are currently visiting Bangladesh

Reserves hit $18.61 billion on May 21, up from $18.43 billion on May 15

They were awarded with the Independence Golden Jubilee Award 2023

Shafiur Rahman, regional operations manager of G-Star in Bangladesh, needs to send 6,146 pieces of denim trousers weighing 4,404 kilogrammes from a Gazipur-based garment factory to Amsterdam of the Netherlands.

70% of the digital payments came through ecommerce

Sectors exposed to artificial intelligence (AI) are seeing rising productivity and faster growth in salaries, a PwC study published on Tuesday said, even as the technology provokes job insecurity concerns.

The government is planning to reduce duties on imported laptops next fiscal year in order to make the devices more affordable and bring relief to freelancers and students.

Bangladesh's factory output grew 6.66 percent in the current fiscal year, the slowest pace of expansion since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, as the stubbornly high inflation hurt domestic demand and the shipment of export-oriented goods slowed.

Twenty-one life insurance companies in Bangladesh have failed to comply with the rule that makes it mandatory for them to invest 30 percent of their assets in government securities, the regulator has found.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to inform Credit Information Bureau (CIB) of wilful defaulters the moment they are identified.

Foreign currencies held by commercial banks in Bangladesh are on the decline due to high demand, indicating growing pressure on the country’s external sector.