At an abandoned train station in Buenos Aires’ working-class suburb of San Miguel, hundreds of Argentines gather with bags of clothes, rice, flour and sugar...

The Asian Development Bank will give $2 billion in loans to Bangladesh this fiscal year – 66.66 percent higher than it did last year –...

Bangabandhu-1 satellite's first commercial service is scheduled to begin in September when it will be connecting vessels navigating in the Bay of Bengal and around...

Sales of air-conditioners are growing steadily in Bangladesh riding on the demand from the expanding middle class and modern offices and factories as consumers are...

Monno Jute Stafflers yesterday became the most valued stock on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, overtaking British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company in what can be viewed...

Bangladesh is set to receive a $20 million loan from an Asian Development Bank (ADB) Power System Efficiency Improvement Project together with an additional $25.44...

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister AKM Shahjahan Kamal on Friday stressed on forming a common platform to promote tourism industry in South Asian region, reports...

Country’s export earnings in the immediate past 2017-18 fiscal year stood at $36.66 billion, which is 2.22 percent lower than the target of $37.5 billion.Despite...

World Bank (WB) Executive Director Aparna Subramani on Monday said Bangladesh is on the strong development trajectory with achieving progress in various development arenas, including...

Bangladesh received foreign assistance amounting to US$ 24 billion from various countries and development partners in the last nine years, Finance Minister AMA Muhith told...

Speakers at a programme on Wednesday stressed the importance of increased connectivity among the South Asian counties through implementing Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and...

Container handling at the Chittagong port increased by around 12 percent in the just concluded fiscal year from around 24.19 lakh twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU)...

Across Rwanda, markets selling piles of cast-off clothes once worn by Americans have become the unlikely centre of a trade war that vendors say is...

The government is set to purchase two Boeing aircraft this year with a $270 million hard loan from HSBC as part of the plan to...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had received assurances from king Salman of Saudi Arabia that the kingdom will increase oil production, "maybe up...

Aziz Ahmad is one of the unlikely winners of the stand-off between the United States and Iran, turning his modest transport service into an international...

Philippines Ambassador to Bangladesh Vicente Vivencio T Bandillo on Monday said his country is keen to boost bilateral trade with Bangladesh mentioning that Bangladesh has...

Deputy Foreign Minister of Thailand Virasakdi Futrakul has expressed keen interest to deepen economic and cultural bonds with Bangladesh and lauded its robust growth and...

Belgium based textile chemicals provider Devan Chemicals features introduced a fresh technology to create textile products free from animal allergens. Dubbed just as Purissimo™, the...

The government initiated a move to implement a Taka 2,868.17 crore pipeline project for transporting white petroleum from Chattogram to Dhaka and Chandpur in a fair...

US cotton futures rose 25 % since mid-January. Prices are in their highest level in 150 years. The commodity almost doubled in benefit this past...

You'd think buying an iPhone would be the best thing in your life. But whether you're or an iPhone user or not, life is just...

The announcement was made by the company’s Managing Director Abdullah Al Mamun at its 2nd Customer Success Summit at a hotel in Cox’s Bazar on...

From 2009, the real estate sector as a whole was growing fast and 2012 was the best year for most realtors. However, we faced a...

Nudrat Lohani Nabi introduced me to the concept of bhodro meye in this newspaper. As someone from outside Bangladeshi society I can tell you that...

A financing agreement worth $40 million was signed on Thursday between Bangladesh and KfW, Development Bank on behalf of the German Federal Government, to support...

ADP execution rate hit the five-year high in the first eight months of the current fiscal as project aid utilisation maintained a steady growth this...

Big Data is at the forefront of the challenges that organizations face today. But the first question is: What is big data?Big data is a...

Freelancers who use third party online workplaces, as well as those who are in direct contact with foreign clients to sell their services, are in...

Deposits with the school banking accounts at commercial banks have crossed Taka 1,300 crore at the end of December 2017 as this banking is gradually...

Bangladesh’s RMG sector, a $28 billion industry, has taken the lead in green manufacturing as it has established 67 eco-friendly green buildings, the highest number...

According to ERD, China will invest $13.6 billion in private sectors alone. Other than that, investment agreements on government sectors worth several billion dollars have...

The selected CIPs will gain access to the Secretariat, and be able to hold meetings with high-ranking officials and get invites to events hosted by...

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) on Monday asked banks to freeze accounts of mobile phone operator Robi for three working days on charge of...

Trading on the country's both bourses - Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange - is underway with downward trends in early hours on Monday...

Thirty-two out of 57 Bangladesh missions abroad successfully achieved their respective export targets in the first half of the current fiscal year (2017-18), according to...

Bangladesh has agreed to sell a large stake in its stock exchange to a Chinese consortium, an official said Tuesday, rebuffing a rival bid from...

Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir on Saturday said there is no liquidity crisis in the country’s banking sector.The assurance came after the bankers have expressed...

Country’s honey production would increase to 70,000-80,000 tonnes a year if the potential of apiculture is properly utilised, market insiders said.Beekeeping holds a great business...

Following the previous day's downward trend, both the bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- witnessed positive trend in early...

The country's third-largest automaker GM Korea is to lay off 2,100 people when it shuts down an assembly plant in Gunsan in southwestern Korea. GM...

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Saturday reiterated his suggestion to bankers for properly evaluating any project proposal before allocating loans to help the...

Iranian police arrested around 100 money changers on Wednesday as it scrambled to contain the decline of the rial, which has lost a quarter of...

Oil prices settled higher on Friday as Investor sentiment was boosted by supportive comments from OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) members about the...

Victims of road accidents barely get any compensation from the government imposed “Act liability insurance” due to complications and lack of uniformity in the regulations.Sources...

Government earns Tk5,268cr from the auctionThe government has collected Tk5,268 crore by selling 15.6MHz of spectrum to Grameenphone and Banglalink through auction as well as...

Asia stocks rebounded on Wednesday following gains on Wall Street as a sense of calm returned to global markets.Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed 3.2% after...

The prudent management of money is essential for our economic stability (Photo - collected)How monetary policy can help stabilize and strengthen our economyThe Bangladesh Bank...

M Wahidul Haque (File photo)DHAKA: The High Court issued a rule asking why the bail for AB Bank’s former Chairman M Wahidul Haque and Treasurer...

NOVOAIR officials in front of the new 68-seater ATR 72-500 model aircraft at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Monday, January 29, 2018...