Bangladeshi garment workers get only 2.96 percent, or just $0.54, of the $18.25 retail value of a polo shirt in the Western world, said the...

Dhaka stocks yesterday bounced back on falling for four consecutive days after some institutional investors acted in keeping with the request of the regulator.Market insiders...

Sales of apparel items in emerging Asia-Pacific countries will continue to grow slightly in 2019 while it will decline in other major regions, including Europe,...

A small number of people are leading the life of the first-world while hundreds of thousands of workers are languishing in the third-world condition in...

Bangladesh's current complex telecom regulatory regime, which has already prevented the sector from achieving its full potential, is not conducive for efficient functioning of 5G...

The global economy is slowing more than expected and a sharp downturn could require world leaders to coordinate stimulus measures, the International Monetary Fund said...

Unless national and international financial systems are revamped, governments will fail to keep their promises on critical issues such as combating climate change and eradicating...

Bangladesh is among the three fastest growing economies in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) -- in yet another thumping endorsement of...

Bangladesh received $15.5 billion in remittance last year, up more than 15 percent year-on-year, according to the World Bank.“In Bangladesh, remittances showed a brisk uptick...

Anguished by the freefall of the stock market over the past month, general investors yesterday staged demonstrations in front of the Dhaka bourse.Since March 3,...

Sonia Bashir Kabir is leaving Microsoft after serving the American multinational technology firm for five years as managing director for Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and...

Inflation last month edged up dangerously close to the ceiling set by the government for this fiscal year thanks to a rise in food prices.In...

In today’s day and age, couples, especially the new age millennials, desire to indulge in a leisure-filled, luxurious honeymoon, for an unforgettable experience. With an...

PepsiCo has brought in Tropicana Frutz—a product of the world's number one packaged juice brand—for the Bangladesh market as part of efforts to widen its...

Software developers are going to propose to the central bank to introduce a special card to help them bear the expenditure on digital marketing through...

Trade deficit squeezed by 8.42 percent in the first eight months of 2018-19 thanks to the steady growth of exports and a slowdown in imports,...

Exports continued its good run in March, fetching 9.51 percent more than a year earlier and getting into a comfortable position to hit this fiscal...

Financial technology, popularly known as fintech, may facilitate financial inclusion in Bangladesh by offering new platforms for savings and borrowings such as agent banking, according...

The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) yesterday demanded reduction in corporate tax in the next fiscal year to facilitate trade and investment.The trade...

Sportswear brand Puma made its entry into the Bangladesh market with the launch of its first flagship store on Banani Road 11 in the capital...

Banks are no longer a place where depositors just go to stash their money and borrowers go to borrow funds during the usual banking hour...

Payments through the mobile financial service platform have trebled in the last one year, in a development that will bring cheer to the central bank...

Soybean and palm oil imports are likely to increase by 10 percent to 26.50 lakh tonnes in the year ending in June, buoyed by rising...

Rubana Huq, managing director of Mohammadi Group, is set to be the next president of the BGMEA after her panel managed a clean sweep at...

It is heartening to learn that the newly elected government is keen to address the menace of non-performing loans (NPL) in Bangladesh. This is appropriate...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its policy interest rate by 25 basis points on Thursday, in a widely expected move to boost the...

Siegwerk, a German packaging ink-making giant, is going to open an ink blending centre in Bangladesh this year to expand its footprint in the $100-million-plus...

Poor network quality is forcing mobile data users in Bangladesh to consume only one-tenth of what Indians are using every month on average, Jerry Wang,...

Voting to the biennial election to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) for 2019-22 is going on to elect the board for the...

None of the mobile operators can maintain the required 4G speed of 7 megabytes per second in any of the four divisions of Khulna, Rajshahi,...

Bangladesh is on track to log in the fastest economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region in fiscal 2019-20, said the Asian Development Bank in its...

Bangladesh has the potential to expand its share of leather and leather products in the lucrative global market if it can make its tanneries fully...

Bangladesh lags far behind its peers in the use of farm machinery despite having huge potential as agriculture remains an important sector of the country's...

Private sector credit growth hit a 53-month low in February thanks to the ongoing liquidity crunch brought about by the rising default loans.In February, credit...

Grameenphone's woes over unpaid dues just got worse, with the government now likely to claim about Tk 800 crore more following revision of the audit...

For the first time in South Asia, Sri Lanka's largest telecommunications service provider Dialog Axiata PLC has successfully demonstrated a fully standards based 5G mobile...

Inward remittances edged up 10.28 percent year-on-year to $11.87 billion in nine months to March this year thanks to the steady depreciation of the taka...

More than nine out of 10 British universities pay their average male employee more than they pay their average female employee.Nearly all government departments and...

Businesses are on board with the government's plan to introduce four different rates of value-added tax (VAT) from July, clearing the way for the implementation...

The majority of Japanese companies operating in Bangladesh plan to go for business expansion over the next two years thanks to cheap labour and high...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government will take measures again to reduce the interest rate for the sake of the country's industrialisation."We'll sit...

The pace of recovery of banks' nonperforming loans (NPL) was much lower than the rate at which their NPL increased last year -- an ominous...

Women entrepreneurs have come a long way despite facing social and economic barriers, speakers said yesterday.Now female entrepreneurs need policy support and more budgetary allocation,...

The budget for the next fiscal year will be realistic, meaning the government will be able to attain both the revenue and expenditure targets, said...

Embattled aviation giant Boeing pledged Wednesday to do all it can to prevent crashes like the two that killed nearly 350 people in recent months,...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a loan of $120 million for a project that will upgrade and expand the power transmission system...

Sterling rallied Tuesday on fresh hope that British Prime Minister Theresa May would avoid a chaotic no-deal Brexit, while global stock markets recovered.As Wall Street...

Sonali Bank has emerged as an anomaly in the banking sector, logging in almost half the loan-deposit ratio than other banks last year, at a...

The local assembly of handsets by Samsung is already bearing fruit as their quality in some cases is better than the imported ones and the...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated digital financial service provider Nagad, a product developed by Bangladesh Post Office with a private company in a bid...