Trade at the Khatunganj market in Chattogram, a wholesale hub for essential commodities, has risen significantly just days before a countrywide strict lockdown to be enforced from Thursday.

United Airlines was putting the finishing touches on Monday to an airplane order potentially worth $30 billion at list values for up to 270 narrowbody jets in a bid to secure a pandemic recovery at favorable prices, industry sources said.

Akij Bakers, a subsidiary of Akij Group, has unveiled a new premium biscuit brand, Bakeman’s, recently.

ONE Bank has recently witnessed the appointment of a new vice chairman as well as chairman of its executive committee.

ACI Group Chairman M Anis Ud Dowla, has been awarded “Bangabandhu Jatiyo Krishi Puroshkar-1424” at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka recently.

India has extended a federal guarantee on bank loans to health and tourism services while waiving visa fees for 500,000 foreign tourists, the finance minister said on Monday, stepping up support for the pandemic-hit economy.

Some 200 employees of Grameenphone have shown interest to accept the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) offered by the country's biggest mobile phone operator as of today.

The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose 0.56 per cent today, but the turnover dropped to below 1,500 points level after more than a month as investors adopted a wait-and-see approach.

The food ministry today launched a decade-long plan for achieving the objectives of the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (NFNSP).

Jute growers in its biggest cultivation hub of Faridpur are expecting a bumper production this current season thanks to favourable weather, a welcome development for the industry that suffered for high prices of raw materials resulting from reduced production the previous year.

The judges of the Supreme Court, including the chief justice, will receive home loans up to Tk 1 crore at a lower interest rate, said the finance division yesterday.

Incomes of some 77 per cent of people in Bangladesh have declined in the throes of the Covid-19 fallouts over the last one and a half years, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday.

Everything was in good shape for Akhtar Hossain Khan, an entrepreneur in Saidpur, until his business faced closure for two months after Covid-19 arrived on the shores of Bangladesh in March last year.

Higher education under private arrangement started its journey in Bangladesh in 1992 under the Private University Act 1992.

Banks will remain open from 10am to 3.30pm during the upcoming countrywide lockdown starting from July 1.

The Korea-Bangladesh CSR Conference 2021 has been organised to raise awareness about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the private sector’s increasing role in the sustainable development and share good CSR practices by Korean companies in Bangladesh, Korean Ambassador Lee Jang-keun said today.

The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) lost more than 100 points today amid fears for the upcoming lockdown, which will begin countrywide on July 1.

Mobile financial service bKash has launched a campaign donating Tk 10 to the country’s healthcare sector for every Tk 5,000 or more added to customer accounts.

Firms in Asia should beef up their efforts to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) technology that is reshaping the traditional manufacturing industry, experts said.

The stimulus packages for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and the agriculture sector should be expanded and redesigned in the next budget considering the Covid-19 fallout, experts said at a webinar held yesterday.