Sajjadur Rahman

The Millennium Development Goals or MDGs, which were adopted in 2000, are coming to an end this year. Lots of talks have already

Seeing the bright prospects of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) market, entrepreneurs are increasingly expanding their capacities in preparation.

HAD Anis A Khan joined civil service, as he passed the examination for a government job in 1982, Bangladesh's corporate sector

Of the 1,134 workers that died in the Rana Plaza collapse two years ago, the families of only 100 of them got the group insurance benefit worth Tk 1 lakh each.

Al Haramain Perfumes, a company set up by a Bangladeshi expatriate, has not only become a household name in the Middle East, its products are also gaining popularity in Europe and the US.

The domestic market for particle boards is thriving on the back of increasing demand for timber-substitute furniture, which is

Provisions for Ananda Shipyard's bad loans have been eating up Islami Bank Bangladesh's profits as it had to set aside Tk 178 crore a

The government has brought down the ceiling for raw sugar imports by 50 percent and banned setting up of new refineries and

An importer in Bangladesh has to pay up to 4 percent of the import value as confirmation fees on letters of credit a year, which is far

PHP, a Chittagong-based industrial giant, is set to assemble Malaysian Proton cars in Bangladesh, with plans to make parts and

Pressure on banks to compensate the businesses affected by the ongoing blockade and shutdowns is mounting by the

The ongoing blockade and a series of shutdowns are pushing up costs of doing business in Bangladesh, say

After rising for two months, private sector credit growth came down again in January due to the seemingly never-ending political

On August 15, India's Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a national mission of financial inclusion. Called the Prime Minister's People's Wealth Programme, it envisions bank accounts for all Indians. In its first phase, ending August 14, 2015, the target is 7.5 crore accounts.

Local conglomerates who once rushed to buy reconditioned ocean-going vessels are now selling off the ships as scrap to stem further losses, industry insiders said.

Non-graded traditional steel millers are facing a difficult time as they are losing market share to tech-savvy large mills, while their remaining business is being eaten up by the ongoing political unrest, industry insiders said.

New banks are lending out heavily -- 70 to 80 percent of their total loans -- to corporate clients instead of small and medium enterprises and retail consumers, insiders and analysts said.

Meghna Group of Bangladesh and PM Group of Thailand have joined hands to set up a polypropylene factory that will support packaging industries at home and abroad.

The issue came to the fore in recent years after food adulteration reached alarming proportions.