Locally grown green sweet orange, or malta, enhances immunity and has shown to be quite helpful for treating people with anemia.

Over 72 per cent of youths out of the 86 per cent who have smartphones have access to the internet.

Following a government directive, sugar refiners yesterday lowered the prices of the commodity amid a continuous rise at the retail level.

Microinsurance is not new in Bangladesh, but the general public know very little about it, although it can deliver much-needed cushion to the largely uninsured population in times of crises.

The Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) has taken up an initiative to make all industries and factories adopt group insurance, made mandatory in the Bangladesh labour law, against the backdrop of recent tragedies in the industrial sector.

Bangladesh’s top trade body yesterday urged banks to take actions against the wilful loan defaulters to bring down the amount of bad loans.

The government is all set to inaugurate four new power plants and an upgraded one, which will have the capacity to produce 779 megawatts of electricity.

Bangladesh is gearing up to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) and amend labour laws to continue to avail duty benefits on merchandise export once it comes out of the least developed country (LDC) status, said Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh yesterday.

Bangladesh Bank has given rawhide traders additional two months to reschedule the loans they took last year to purchase rawhide with only 3 per cent down payment.

Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO of US Green Building Council (USGBC), has commended the role Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has played in developing Bangladesh as the home of the highest number of green garment factories in the world.

Bangladesh's stock market continued to soar for the last eight consecutive days, which helped the index to reach a new height today.

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has called upon the Russian entrepreneurs to invest in different sectors, including fertilizer, cement, leather and shipbuilding industries, in the country.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) yesterday asked the Dhaka bourse to submit a report about the reasons behind the skyrocketing prices of low-performing companies and junk stocks.

Mastercard and Brac Bank yesterday launched a “Mastercard Tara World” credit card in Bangladesh. 

Nafees Khundker has recently been appointed director of Bank Asia Ltd.  He is also one of the sponsors of the bank, a press release said.

Workshops in Syria’s Aleppo used to clatter on into the night before the war, but these days the machines grind to a halt at 6:00 pm sharp because of power cuts.

Jute growers are overjoyed as they took home good crops, which will allow them to make more profit because of the current higher prices of the golden fibre.

The South Bangla Agriculture and Commerce (SBAC) Bank has decided to establish two subsidiaries to venture into merchant banking and asset management.

Small jute mills of Rangpur division in the country’s northwest have resumed production after remaining shut for several months as raw jute prices soared after last year’s harvests and for the pandemic-induced business losses.

Despite a price drop of most listed companies’ stocks, the benchmark index of the Dhaka bourse soared and broke its previous record yesterday.