The government will provide 15 per cent cash subsidy to rice exporters for the first time in the country’s history with the view to encouraging shipment of the surplus grain.

Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company (BSCCL) is looking for new markets to export its huge unused bandwidth and the new destination is Nepal, said officials of the state-owned listed firm.

The 10th President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Masatsugu Asakawa assumed office today.

The Board of Directors of Grameenphone appoints Yasir Azman as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bangladeshi operation, effective from February 1, 2020.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has received 14,037 complaints regarding mobile operators’ services in 2019, according to a report.

The government has launched WiFi service at 146 educational institutions including colleges, universities and training institutes throughout the country.

State Minister for Civil Aviation Mahbub Ali urges Nepalese travelers to make their holidays at the world’s longest sea beach at Cox’s Bazar as Bangladesh’s coastline is the closest beach for the tourists of that landlocked country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses hope that the banks will implement the single digit interest rate from April for the sake of the speedy industrialisation and investment.

Fifth-generation (5G) mobile service and data security are the two major technologies Bangladeshi companies believe will have the greatest impact on businesses in the next five years, according to a recent international survey.

Bangladesh’s economy will surpass that of Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore with its presence as the 30th largest economy in the world by 2024, says a global report released by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).

Broadband internet service and mobile SMS service are restored in government-run hospitals in Kashmir ending over four and half months of suspension.

Bholaganj Sada Pathor, around 35 kilometres away from the Sylhet city, has turned into a new destination for the tourists. The beautiful place located at the end of Sylhet-Companiganj-Bholaganj highway attracts hundreds of tourists a day.

Major realtors have set their sight on the capital’s Mirpur to propel their growth and court middle and higher middle income groups as the largely under-developed area has turned lucrative since the start of construction of the metro rail that passes through it.

The number of active internet connections in the country dropped by 0.51 million from 99.57 million, says a report of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.

The government has received proposals from half a dozen foreign companies which want to invest in Teletalk and fifth-generation (5G) service, Mustafa Jabbar, posts and telecommunications minister, said yesterday.

The country’s poverty rate came down at 20.5 percent while the extreme poverty rate came down at 10.5 percent in June this year.

Boeing Co. says that it will temporarily stop producing its grounded 737 Max jet starting in January as it struggles to get approval from regulators to put the plane back in the air.

A February Reserve Bank of India rate cut is on a knife’s edge, with just under half of economists polled expecting easing at that meeting, and is highly likely by the middle of next year, according to a Reuters poll.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) yesterday issued guidelines for banks to prevent money laundering in the name of export and import.

The National Board of Revenue is going to start installation of electronic transaction registers termed as electronic fiscal device from this month at retail and wholesale levels, says NBR Chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan.