The company will now have time until March 31 of 2025 to submit its audited financial statement
After a pause of five years, shipbuilder Western Marine Shipyard Ltd is planning to export eight ships to a buyer of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by next year.
In October, a video on social media showed the manager of Social Islami Bank’s Agargaon branch breaking down in tears after enduring harsh verbal abuse from frustrated customers seeking to withdraw cash.
Many low-income and unskilled workers in Bangladesh’s agriculture, industrial and service sectors are being compelled to reduce consumption as rising inflation eroded their real incomes over the past three years.
Despite a decision by the interim government to hike soybean oil prices nearly three weeks back, many kitchen markets across Bangladesh, including the capital Dhaka, are missing an adequate supply of the key cooking ingredient.
After two years of sluggish business, local furniture makers saw a slight improvement in sales in June, only to meet with nationwide student protests culminating in a fierce anti-government campaign that ultimately ousted the Awami League regime in early August.
A Moulana shared a viral story about his childhood friend, an eloquent speaker who became the Imam of a modern mosque in Dhaka.
Noted economist Debapriya Bhattacharya raised concerns about the role of global institutions, indicating the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), in assessing Bangladesh's debt sustainability under the previous regime as the country faces increasing pressure from escalating debt servicing obligations.
There are 1.22 crore economic enterprises across the country, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)..Among them, 76 lakh are business establishments and 46 lakh are economic units, the national statistics agency found during the primary mapping and listing work for the co
Stock trading in Bangladesh has slowed in recent months as most investors are not placing fresh bets considering the market’s bleak outlook amid ongoing economic uncertainties. As such, daily turnover of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) plunged by 5.02 percent to Tk 279 crore yesterday, mark
The government yesterday raised the retail prices of soybean and super palm oils by Tk 8 per litre. Bottled soybean oil price was set at Tk 175, and loose soybean oil and super palm oil at Tk 157.
China’s top electric vehicle maker BYD gained market share as the world’s largest auto market recorded its fastest-growing month in 2024, setting BYD up to exceed its global annual sales goal and overtake Ford and Honda.
The Indian rupee is likely to open slightly lower on Monday as expectations surrounding the incoming Trump administration’s policies keep the dollar well-bid despite heightened hopes of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month.
There is no overnight cure for the deep-rooted challenges facing the country’s banking sector, Abdul Awal Mintoo, former president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), said yesterday.
Workers in some of the world’s biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change pushes temperatures up, a report found on Sunday, a problem multinational retailers and brands will have to help address.
The government will rationalise tax exemptions once the country’s economic situation improves to some extent, according to National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan.
A state-run annual increment and wage review committee yesterday recommended that the government raise the minimum wage of garment workers by 9 percent.
