She added that past social protection schemes have often suffered from irregularities and corruption

The vast majority of Bangladesh’s workforce remains in marginal conditions, outside the reach of formal labour protections, experts warned yesterday, calling for a shift in policy focus beyond the garment sector.

According to Barvida, around 3 lakh people directly or indirectly employed in the sector now face uncertainty over their livelihoods

FR Khan has stepped down from his executive responsibilities as managing director of Building Technology & Ideas Limited (bti), a real estate company, effective July 1 this year, according to a press release.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has waived the requirement to maintain provisions against funds of banks and non-bank financial institutions stuck in five merging shariah-based lenders

The association demanded duty cuts for hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles

Warns of inflation, erosion of purchasing power

Gold rose on Thursday on ‌dip-buying, but was on track for a second straight monthly fall as elevated oil prices kept fears of inflation and higher-for-longer interest rates alive.

The government has formed a high-powered panel to review the widely discussed ordinances on revenue reform framed by the Prof Muhammad Yunus-led interim administration.

Google-parent Alphabet impressed Wall Street with its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday, as big tech rival Meta left investors lukewarm amid concerns about the huge cost of AI development.

IPDC Finance PLC has announced a 10 percent dividend for 2025, including 5 percent in cash.

Bata Bangladesh Limited has announced a 248 percent cash dividend for 2025, including 105 percent for the fourth quarter.

Samsung Electronics said Thursday that operating profit soared 750 percent on-year to a record high in the first quarter thanks to strong sales of chips crucial for artificial intelligence, and forecast continued healthy demand in the next three months.

The news was so uplifting that one could almost picture an emergency meeting of the “Chor Samity”, “Dakat Association”, “People Looter Forum” and the esteemed “Bank Looters Welfare Council”. Tea was poured. Samosas arrived. A solemn resolution was passed.

Rice supply is expected to fall this year as farmers cut planting acreage across Asia because of fertiliser shortages and soaring fuel costs ​from the Iran war, with an emerging El Nino also set to squeeze output of the world’s most consumed staple.

The government has selected two Chinese companies to drill three wells at different locations across the country at a cost of Tk 945 crore.

Foreign financing received by Bangladesh fell 19 percent year-on-year in the July-March period of fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26), mainly due to the slow implementation of foreign-funded development projects.

The government has allowed the duty-free import of electric buses for educational institutions to promote safe and environment-friendly transportation for students.

Bangladesh cited gaps in readiness, incomplete core reforms, and economic fallout from the Iran war as reasons for seeking an extension of the transition period for graduation from the least developed country (LDC) category by three more years at the public hearing of the UNCDP on April 29.

More than half of the country’s scheduled banks will not be able to pay dividends this year, as rising bad loans and provisioning shortfalls continue to erode their financial strength.