Sohel Parvez

The country's shipbuilding sector has returned to growth following years in doldrums, on the back of a surge in demand from

Farmers, particularly up north, have taken up irrigation to transplant aman seedlings and water the fields that have already been cultivated amid scanty rainfall this monsoon.

Biman is set to increase flights to London by the end of this year after taking delivery of its second Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in

The government is going to cut withholding tax and corporate tax for garment exporters in what can be viewed as yet another

The opportunity came to him 32 years after he began his career in 1960. The Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) had decided to divest its shareholding to local management in 1992 and M Anis Ud Dowla grabbed the opportunity without thinking twice.

Despite having an adequate stock, farmers and traders are worried about being able to supply enough sacrificial animals to the major cities, particularly Dhaka, ahead of Eid-ul-Azha due to tailbacks at ferry terminals.

The government has made packaging of two more products—poultry and fish feed— in jute bags compulsory, a move that has been

Private companies are gearing up to develop modern rice seeds after the government lifted restriction on carrying out research to introduce inbred varieties of the staple to cater to the Tk 1,000 crore market.

Rice production in the immediate past boro season shot up to a new high of 1.95 crore tonnes, pulling the total output of the staple to 3.62 crore tonnes in the immediate past fiscal year, enough to meet domestic demand.

The marine research vessel, Dr Fridtjof Nansen, will dock at Chittagong next week to survey fish stocks, biodiversity and the amount of micro plastics in the Bay of Bengal, said officials of the fisheries ministry.

The government has given the approval to 16 firms to bring vessels to catch tuna and pelagic fishes beyond the 200-metre depth of the Bay of Bengal and in the international waters, said officials of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock.

Shrimp exports fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2017-18 in the face of persistent weak demand in the international market for the

Every year Unilever gets 1.8 million job applications from across the world, some 7,000 of them coming from one of the 190 countries the company has operations in, Bangladesh.

The export of caustic soda to India has remained suspended for the last three months after New Delhi ruled the chemical will not be allowed to enter the country without the certification from its standards authority.

The National Board of Revenue is set to offer compliant businesses the privilege to clear their imported and exported goods fast by awarding them the status of Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) with a view to boosting international trade.

A rising number of entrepreneurs are joining the queue to establish private economic zones, tempted by the tax breaks and a host of other benefits offered by the government.

New and ongoing green energy initiatives are set to face spiralling costs in the wake of the shock imposition of value-added tax on the import of solar panels from this fiscal year.

Rice prices have gone up as millers and traders hiked prices banking on the government decision to raise import duty on the cereal to 28 percent from 2 percent, say market insiders.

Bangladesh has developed 87 modern rice varieties in the last five decades, but only a handful of them have become popular among farmers who are not adequately informed about the features of all of the varieties.

Individuals and companies will have to use the electronically generated business identification numbers (BINs) from today as the