Bangladesh Bank today extended the deadline for tanners to repay default loans by three months under relaxed facilities given the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

Shopowners today stressed the need for collecting value-added tax (VAT) at source until the government completes installing cash register machines in all kinds of stores.

Jackfruits from Bangladesh are now on sale in a German market.

Standard Chartered Bangladesh has announced a Tk 13.5 crore strategic action plan for 2021 to support healthcare and immediate assistance, restore livelihoods and catalyse long-term growth.

The stock market experienced a fall today just a day after hitting a three-and-a-half-year high, as investors went for booking profits.

Car factories, including those of Renault-Nissan, Hyundai and Ford, can operate with full workforces in India’s automaking hub from Monday, even though 75 per cent of workers at the global carmakers’ plants have not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

An apparent lack of coordination and disconnect with state initiatives is causing brush makers of a small village in Tangail to lose out to the Covid-19 fallouts and competition from China.

The Dow was set for its best day in more than three months on Monday as investors piled back into financials and energy shares that are set to benefit from a broader economic recovery.

Private sector borrowers will have to keep at least 5 per cent in cash collateral against foreign loans with the associated guarantee-providing banks.

American Airlines on Sunday said it would cancel around 1 per cent of its flights in July to serve a surprise uptick in travel demand at a time when the airline struggles with unprecedented weather and a labor shortage at some of its hubs.

Dhaka stocks rose to a three-and-a-half-year high yesterday as institutional investors received a boost following the complete withdrawal of the floor price for all companies by the regulator.

Germany on Monday opened an investigation against Apple over anti-competition practices, as the iPhone maker became the fourth US tech giant to be hit by such probes.

Stocks of GPH Ispat rose 2.47 per cent yesterday after news that the company’s Tk 2,390-crore plant has begun commercial production.

Britain’s business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Monday he was “pretty sure” the so-called ‘triple lock’ system for increasing state pensions would not be changed to pay for the cost of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Vaccination of 12 crore more people within the next one year is a must to restore confidence and revive Bangladesh’s businesses and economy, said analysts yesterday.

Britain’s top central bank officials look set to remain divided this week over whether to pull the plug on their 875 billion-pound ($1.2 trillion) government bond purchase programme, after inflation hit its highest in nearly two years.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday issued a policy on calculating the interest rate of short-term foreign loans as the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) is set to be phased out gradually from next year.

A German trade union called on workers at seven Amazon warehouses to go on strike on Monday for several days to coincide with the global Prime Day promotion.

The number of restaurants and the people involved in the sector has significantly increased over the decade to 2019-20 thanks to changing lifestyle, increasing mobility of people, and demand for dining-out, according to a new survey.

The US Federal Reserve’s carefully crafted move last year to a jobs-first monetary policy, touted as giving workers their best chance after the pandemic, is being tested by a potentially table-turning rebound of inflation and what’s become a relative rush of policymakers determined not to let it get out of hand.