4 October 2025, 20:10 PM

BRAC Bank gets nod for country’s first social bond

Social bond to channel funds for CMSMEs, women entrepreneurs, and food security
4 October 2025, 20:09 PM

World turns to AI, Bangladesh stuck in Excel-era training

Outdated training is failing to make Bangladesh's young people job-ready at home or abroad
4 October 2025, 20:07 PM

Gold nears Tk 2 lakh mark per bhori

Prices have spiked again within less than a week
4 October 2025, 15:46 PM

Why is Bangladesh’s inflation highest in South Asia?

Bangladesh Bank has hiked the policy rate on 11 occasions since May 2022
4 October 2025, 14:51 PM

Islami Bank: Terminated staff demand reinstatement

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited’s terminated employees and those placed on OSD yesterday demanded reinstatement to their original posts and immediate withdrawal of the OSD status imposed on thousands.
3 October 2025, 20:00 PM

$4.7 billion IMF loan: Govt meets most conditions for next tranche

An IMF mission is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on October 29 for a two-week review of progress made until June.
3 October 2025, 18:17 PM

Loan recovery from top 20 defaulters stalls

As of December 2024, the top 20 borrowers owed Tk 85,444 crore
2 October 2025, 18:18 PM

Purpose beyond profit

A CEO in Dhaka once gathered his managers and declared with great seriousness, “Our company has only one purpose: to maximise profit.
2 October 2025, 18:00 PM

UN support for LDC review: Helpful, but won’t guarantee deferment, say economists

The review is expected to start within a month and conclude by mid-January 2026
2 October 2025, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh drew less than 5% of S Asia’s logistics FDI: report

Bangladesh has attracted $1.8 billion in greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) in logistics between 2019 and 2024, accounting for 4.9 percent of South Asia’s total, according to a report by GlobalData and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
2 October 2025, 18:00 PM

ADB to cancel or redirect $408m amid project delays

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will cancel or redirect around $408 million from projects in Bangladesh this year due to prolonged implementation delays, even as several ADB-funded schemes made progress.
2 October 2025, 18:00 PM

As bond yields fall, will lending rate decline?

Bangladesh Bank has been maintaining a contractionary monetary policy stance for nearly two years to bring down inflation
2 October 2025, 14:40 PM

Potato price dips below Tk 20/kg amid oversupply

Potato prices across Bangladesh have plunged below Tk 20 per kilogramme from Tk 25 a month ago, leaving farmers reeling from losses even as the government struggles to contain the market glut..Stakeholders blame the government for failing to implement its announced measures, including a mi
2 October 2025, 14:33 PM

City Bank gets $75 million from AIIB, NDB

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB), two global multilateral development banks, will provide City Bank PLC $75 million in long-term financing for private sector projects with a strong focus on renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure..T
2 October 2025, 12:38 PM

ADB signs $30m sustainability-linked loan with Envoy Textiles

Sustainability-linked loan advances Envoy’s yarn production and solar energy capacity
2 October 2025, 06:20 AM

Eurozone inflation accelerates

Eurozone inflation edged up in September buoyed by energy costs, official data showed Wednesday, reinforcing expectations the European Central Bank will not make further interest rate cuts this year.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM

Hit by Trump tariffs, rest of world races to forge new trade alliances

US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs have breathed life into dormant free trade talks across the globe and driven alliances at an unrivalled pace between partners seeking to offset lost exports to the United States.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM

Govt to revamp fisheries policy eyeing chemical-free fish

The interim government is seeking to introduce sweeping reforms in the fisheries sector,  aiming to ensure  safe fish free of chemical, microbiological and hazardous elements.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM

Customers still chasing refunds after e-commerce scams

Tk 58cr stuck in payment gateways as government efforts stall
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM