Chinese President Xi Jinping, in his official statement at the General Debate of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 21, announced that China would step up support for other developing countries in generating green and low-carbon energy and would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.

The long awaited Payra bridge, which will facilitate road transport between a seaport and popular tourist destinations nearby, is finally nearing completion a good five years after its original due date.

The government has targeted an annual average productivity growth rate of 5.6 per cent for the next 10 years as it is set to begin implementing the Bangladesh National Productivity Master Plan from January next year.

Blended finance could be a remedy for job-seeking climate migrants but they need to be trained up first for skills development, while the financing should be provided to selective sectors, experts said at a dialogue held yesterday.

Cold storage operators yesterday expressed apprehensions that nearly 10 lakh tonnes of potato would remain unsold this year owing to increased production and less than expected consumption.

Bangladesh’s prospects of keeping exporting to the European Union duty-free have brightened as the bloc has proposed to update rules to allow a growing number of graduating LDCs to qualify for the preferential trade benefit.

bKash, a mobile financial service provider in the country, has reduced its "cash out" charge to make customer transactions more affordable.

Bangladeshi travel-tech startup Go Zayaan has raised $2.6 million in a seed round led by Wavemaker Partners, one of Southeast Asia’s leading venture capital firms, according to a press release.

Stocks at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to rise for a third consecutive day, sending the bourse’s prime index to an all-time high.

Every parent yearns for a stress-free, comfortable and bright future for their beloved children. And most parents work tirelessly so that the sons and daughters don’t face any financial difficulty in life.

Overall poverty in Bangladesh is increasing as the vulnerable non-poor have slipped below the upper poverty line due to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday renewed the interim licence of Nagad for another six months as the Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) has failed to form a subsidiary to run the mobile financial service.

Nine foreign and domestic firms are going to invest $55 million in Bangladesh’s hi-tech parks to set up manufacturing units for a number of products, including semiconductors, digital devices, and medical equipment.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday fined two more banks and warned four others for investing in the stock market breaching rules.

Asian Paints Limited, a decorative coatings company, virtually launched ‘ColourNext 2021’ for the top architects, engineers and interior designers recently.

Asian shares managed to claw back some of this week’s heavy losses on Thursday but were headed for their worst quarter since the pandemic hit, while the dollar held near a one-year high, helped by broad safe-haven demand and US rate hike prospects.

Prime Bank Limited has introduced a digital loan disbursement system for the garments workers- the move, the bank claimed, is the first of its kind in the banking industry in Bangladesh.

The six small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) listed on the DSE-SME board of the Dhaka bourse yesterday began secondary trading.

Bangladesh’s ICT sector is flourishing on the back of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and big data warehousing, said Farhana A Rahman, senior vice-president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).

Dhamaka Shopping came to the market with a singular plan: take hold of as much cash as possible from unsuspecting customers by offering them dizzying discounts for deferred delivery and run for safety as soon as a certain amount had accrued.