The Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) yesterday announced Naser Ezaz Bijoy as president-elect for the period of 2022-2023.

The stock market index remained flat in the first two hours of trading today.

Envoy Textiles is going to raise Tk 87 crore through issuing preference shares.

In the context of a developing country like Bangladesh, migration and resulting remittances can have crucial implications for its growth and development. Overseas migration has been working as a key means of providing employment opportunities for the growing labour force, with the remittances sent by the migrants contributing at both the macro and micro levels.

Dried fish producers of Chalan Beel which spreads across Pabna, Sirajganj and Natore districts have been left frustrated this year as their production levels have been halved by high input costs amid a scanty supply of local fish varieties.

Bangladesh should reassess the protection granted to the domestic industries in order to help them grow up and accelerate the growth of non-garment export sectors, said experts. 

Unemployed youths are now more interested in getting government jobs rather than private sector ones because of higher salaries and job security, speakers said yesterday.

City Bank, one of the oldest banks in Bangladesh, yesterday rolled out its Islamic banking service in all branches and sub-branches throughout the country.

The recovery from default loans has failed to keep pace with escalating delinquent assets in Bangladesh, hitting banks’ income and cash flow.

The United Nations declared the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. But 15 years before the international treaty, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman enacted the Child Rights Act in 1974 to protect children and ensure their rights.

The commerce ministry would ask Bangladesh Bank to start providing customers with refunds of advance payments that were made to e-commerce firms but got stuck with payment gateways for non-delivery of goods, said a senior official yesterday.

Most people, especially those from the middle and lower-income brackets, usually choose to buy a ready apartment or flat rather than build their own home.

Stocks gained yesterday on the back of an increased participation of investors as expectations grew that the government’s move to resolve the disputes between the Bangladesh Bank and the capital market regulator would yield better outcome.

Bangladesh now has a fleet of 80 oceangoing vessels, a record high since the country’s independence.

Bangladesh’s exports surged in November as it raked in $4.04 billion, reflecting the strong demand for apparels from the country following reopening of US and European economies from the severe fallout of Covid-19, official figures showed yesterday.

Beleaguered e-commerce platform Alesha Mart has halted its official operations until further notice citing an unwanted situation and inadequate security.

The Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Wicci) has awarded 12 individuals and three organisations for their outstanding contributions in the fields of literature, arts, science, technology, social service, medicine and business.

The ninth national small medium enterprise (SME) products fair 2021 is going to be organised from December 5 to December 12 with the aim of promoting entrepreneurs and expanding this market through the diversification of products.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday urged foreign entrepreneurs to invest more in Bangladesh considering the increased competition amid the fourth industrial revolution.

The Ministry of Textiles and Jute will celebrate National Textiles Day 2021 on December 4 by honouring seven organisations for their contribution to protecting the textiles sector in the pandemic’s aftermath.