State-run telecom operator Teletalk has failed to ensure the standard call success rate and call drop rate in Dhaka division, excluding two city corporations in the capital.

A section of unscrupulous traders are cutting edible oil bottles to sell them in loose form in order to get higher prices ahead of the Ramadan, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said today.

Bangladesh needs to reduce its dependence on customs duty for revenue as lowering the cost of doing business would help local products and services become more competitive on a global scale, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB).

Non-performing loans (NPLs) in the country’s banking sector increased 16.38 per cent year-on-year to Tk 103,274 crore in 2021 despite a relaxed loan classification policy taken by the Bangladesh Bank.

Listed and leading pharmaceutical company Renata Ltd has decided to purchase 560 decimals of land along with a carton factory at Rajendrapur in Gazipur to expand its factory.

Share prices dropped in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) today after experiencing a rebound in the previous two days.

A High Court judge has commented that district deputy commissioners are like the governor of the East India Company of the British era.

The country’s constitution stipulates that there should be specific laws to appoint Supreme Court judges and regulate the appointments of the chiefs of staff of the defence services.

For the first time in the country, people with disabilities are being brought under health insurance such that they can get treatment at a low cost.

Even journalists would also be brought under the universal pension scheme, Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud said today.

Rosatom, the contractor of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, dismissed the possibilities of a delay in the construction of the country’s mega project as some of the Russian banks are set to be disconnected from its global financial messaging system SWIFT because of sanctions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) is set to elect new top leadership, without Mujahidul Islam Selim at the helm of the party, after 30 years.

Remittances fell into a negative territory last month after showing a dazzling display in December and January.

Department of Environment (DoE) today shut down a brick kiln -- built a decade ago, in an elephant sanctuary -- in Fasiakhali union of Chakaria upazila under Cox’s Bazar.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has given go-ahead to Meghna Insurance to raise Tk 16 crore from the stock market.

Share prices in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to rise for the second consecutive day today.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members have arrested four people in connection with the murder of a 13-year-old boy in Cox’s Bazar’s Ramu upazila.

The telecom regulator has given the operators additional 15 days to implement a directive that cuts the number of offers and enables customers to carry forward their unused internet data of the current deal to the next one.

For the first time in the country, people with disabilities are being brought under health insurance.

International investment summits should be regularly organised once in every two years to attract more investment for Bangladesh, said Salman F Rahman, prime minister's private industry and investment adviser.