The Dhaka stocks fell to below 7,000 points today after a break of 11 working days.

The lack of reliable data on poverty, employment and other key economic indicators in Bangladesh undermines the country’s efforts to make proactive contributions towards its development, according to speakers at a webinar.

Textile millers yesterday urged the government to ensure an uninterrupted gas supply to keep the recovery of the apparel sector from pandemic fallout smooth.

The pandemic has ended up being the final nail in the coffin for Hotel Naz Garden in Bogura, the first three-star establishment of northern Bangladesh, with the owner putting it up for sale to end it from haemorrhaging money.

The Bangladesh Bank plans to bar banks from providing financial services through social media platforms as it poses data security risk, a move that may nip the initiative aimed at popularising digital banking in the bud.

The government is having to provide over threefold the usual annual subsidies for fertilisers in fiscal year 2021-22 due to an unusual rise in international market prices.

Listed steel maker GPH Ispat’s profit soared in the first half of the current financial year.

Trade in the domestic stock market slowed constantly over the past week as investors adopted a cautious approach in their wait for the half-yearly reports of listed companies amid a worsening coronavirus situation.

Any power tariff hike will have a serious impact on the garment industry as it will scuttle its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and erode competitiveness, said Faruque Hassan, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).

The traditional pewter and brass metalwork industry in Chapainawabganj has been struggling to bear the burden of increased production costs for the past four months now, according to industry insiders.

Listed steel maker GPH Ispat's profit soared in the first half of the current financial year.

The textile millers today urged the government to ensure uninterrupted gas supply and not to increase its prices at a time when the garment industry is trying to recover the losses caused by the ongoing pandemic.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to start its pre-budget meetings for the next fiscal year from February 6.

Syed Ershad Ahmed has been re-elected as the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh (AmCham) for 2021-22 tenure.

Stocks listed with the Dhaka bourse dropped by the end of yesterday’s trading session despite opening on a positive note.

Abdus Sattar, a resident of Mahishamuri village in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, was a weaver by profession like his father before him, the late Amir Chand.

Bangladesh Satellite Company has been exempted from tax payments for five years from now on income generated by Bangabandhu Satellite-1, Bangladesh’s first geostationary communication satellite launched nearly four years ago.

The Bangladesh Bank has postponed state banks’ recruitment tests scheduled to start from February 1 due to the recent spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

While foreign construction firms are using imported prefabricated modular units of steel in the country’s mega projects, Dhaka Mass Transit Company is using that made locally in the metro rail project, resting assured of their international standard.

Bangladesh’s external debt repayment has increased gradually in recent times aided by an inflow of a huge amount of foreign loans from multilateral and bilateral partners in the forms of project aid and budget support.