Police have arrested two youths in a case filed for raping a girl in Cox’s Bazar town.

The port’s effort to keep trading on even amid pandemic in the last fiscal year has helped log the export growth, said Abdul Jalil, deputy director for administration of the Benapole Port.

One person died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Pranay Kumar Verma, the current Indian ambassador to Vietnam, has been appointed as the next Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh.

The helper of Bikash Paribahan, who allegedly sexually assaulted a college girl on a moving bus in Azimpur on Sunday, was arrested last evening.

Banks’ financing to the agriculture sector soared 13 per cent year-on-year to Tk 28,391 crore in the fiscal year 2021-22, exceeding their targets set by Bangladesh Bank.

The jewellers have decided to increase gold prices by Tk 2,741 per bhori from tomorrow.

A Dhaka court today (July 28, 2022) again rejected a bail petition of Chandra Shekhar Haldar Milton, an officer of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE), in connection with question leak for recruitment exams of DSHE in May this year.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) today urged the central bank governor for conducting strong monitoring in private commercial banks and financial institutions to check the anomalies in currency exchange business.

Banglalink wins with a score of 10 Mbps, 1.2 Mbps ahead of second placed Grameenphone, while Robi and TeleTalk are in third and fourth place, respectively, with scores of 6.8 Mbps and 4.4 Mbps respectively, according to the report.

The stock market regulator has set floor price again in a bid to halt freefall of the stock market indices amid a global economic meltdown that had impacted Bangladesh’s economic indicators in the last few months.

As Ukraine refugees flee the war-torn nation and settle into different parts of Canada, other immigrants who have made the nation their home are stepping up to do their part.

Bangladesh wants easy and cheap cotton from Uzbekistan to boost trade relations between the two countries, Senior Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh said today.

The High Court today (July 28, 2022) granted a permanent bail to Regent Hospital Chairman Mohammad Shahed in a corruption case filed on charge of embezzling Tk 2 crore from Padma Bank (formerly Farmers Bank) in order to buy an MRI machine.

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) suffered another decline today, sending the market to more than a 13-month low, highlighting investors’ continued worry about the volatility facing the economy owing to the global crisis.

Proparco, the private sector financing arm of Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD Group), today gave $13.8 million to local Ananta Huaxiang Limited (AHL), a subsidiary of Ananta Group in Bangladesh, to increase its sweater manufacturing capacity.

Police have arrested a bus driver in a case filed for sexually abusing a college student on a moving bus in Dhaka’s Azimpur area on Sunday (July 24, 2022).

The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) today suggested the central bank should consider China’s Renminbi (RMB) as a second currency for international trading, especially for importing raw materials from China.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has tightened one condition for trading shares on the SME board slightly after criticisms that easy access made the market index overvalued.

Paramount Textile, a listed textile company, has got regulatory approval to offload preference shares to raise a fund of Tk 150 crore.