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Organisation News
Egg producers deny liability for abnormal price rise
Egg, meat and feed producers of the poultry industry yesterday refused to take responsibility for the prices of eggs skyrocketing, claiming that they were selling those at reasonable prices.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh, Denmark partner to ensure food safety
Denmark and Bangladesh have forged collaboration to strengthen their partnership for food safety and sustainable food production.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
The hard-to-read bosses
A top executive was once giving a speech at a conference. He said, “Ladies and gentlemen, let me share some of the secrets behind my success.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Appollo Ispat drowning in loans
Appollo Ispat Complex Limited, producer of the renowned “Rani Marka Dheu Tin” brand of corrugated iron sheets, is drowning in loans with production shut for over two years.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
BSEC urges bankers to help develop bond market
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has asked banks in the country to help develop the local bond market by increasing their participation in buying and selling the debt securities.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Crab exports recovering from pandemic loss
Crab exports, which lost momentum after the outbreak of Covid-19, have rebounded in terms of quantity, giving a new lease on life to growers in coastal districts who rear the sea creature to sell to exporters.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Berger to honour talented interior designers
The most talented professional and amateur interior designers will be recognised by Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd, which announced the launch of the “Berger Awards for Interior Design 2023” at Gulshan Club in Dhaka yesterday.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Workshop held on MFS abuse
Sylhet Range Police in collaboration with bKash recently organised a daylong workshop to raise awareness on how to prevent the abuse of mobile financial services (MFS) in criminal activities.
17 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Christmas apparel shipment to be dull
Local garment exporters do not expect any substantial increase in shipments to the Western world centring upcoming Christmas sales because of high inflation and for old stocks remaining unsold in retail stores in the American and European markets, exporters said.
17 August 2023, 00:00 AM
BB asks banks to regain people’s trust
People are increasingly opting for keeping cash, which is a major concern in this era of digital banking as it indicates a lack of trust in banks, said Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder yesterday.
17 August 2023, 00:00 AM
Idra issues guidelines for insurtech
The insurance regulator of Bangladesh has finalised a framework enabling tech startups to innovate insurance policies, their distribution and other related tasks.
16 August 2023, 18:00 PM
On the verge of digital banking revolution
Digital banks operate exclusively online without traditional physical branch networks. Traditional brick-and-mortar banks have high operational costs,
16 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Onion prices rising again
The wholesale price of onion is again increasing in Bangladesh as farmers are quickly running out of stock due to an inadequate supply of the local variety, according to traders and growers.
16 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Bad loans, forex volatility main challenges
HSBC Global Research says
16 August 2023, 18:00 PM
TCB to buy 80 lakh litres of soybean oil
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh is going to buy 80 lakh litres of soybean oil in 2023-24 fiscal year.
16 August 2023, 11:06 AM
Apartment sales down 17pc in FY23
Overall sales of flats declined nearly 17 per cent in the last fiscal year of 2022-23 owing to economic uncertainties and a rise in prices of raw materials, according to realtors.
16 August 2023, 04:00 AM
Microfinance sector’s NPL nearly doubles
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh witnessed an 85 percent year-on-year jump in non-performing loans in 2021-22 as borrowers struggled to pay back owing to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic slowdown, official figures showed.
16 August 2023, 00:00 AM
Banking sector’s ills: Now what as BB hits the nail on the head?
For the first time, the central bank has published full-fledged data on stressed assets of banks, laying bare the sector’s deep ills that have been a subject in the public discourse for long as irregularities and scams often make headlines.
16 August 2023, 00:00 AM
Economy growing but trade-GDP ratio falling gradually
Bangladesh’s exports and imports as percentage of its gross domestic product (GDP) has been falling gradually, although the economy has continued growing by 6.5 percent annually in the last one decade.
15 August 2023, 18:00 PM
UCB, NEC Money Transfer sign remittance deal
United Commercial Bank (UCB) signed an agreement with NEC Money Transfer Ltd on remittance services.
15 August 2023, 18:00 PM