Stressing the need for reducing dependence on the government, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged garment owners to help complete the work on Garment Village at Gazaria in Munshiganj for further development of the country's RMG industry.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission plans to build a Tk 200 crore building in the capital as its head office. The BTRC has recently sought the Telecom Division's permission to spend Tk 100 crore from its own revenue on the 13-storey Telecom Tower.

The government should consider merging weak banks with the strong ones for the betterment of the sector and the economy, analysts said yesterday.

BANGLADESH Bank is committed to establishing good governance practices in banks and financial institutions besides fulfilling its core objectives like employment maximisation and price stability in the country.

Speakers at a views-exchange meeting yesterday heavily criticised Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza),

After a gap of more than four years, some commercial banks have recently borrowed money from the central bank through repo auction.

Bangladesh Bank is set to form a $200 million fund to provide low-cost loans to textile and leather industries for switching to

As is common in big institutions, ideas of those lower down the hierarchy tend to get lost.

Chief Justice SK Sinha yesterday said smuggling was affecting the country's economy.

Bangladesh's economic growth will keep up its momentum this fiscal year despite pressure on the budget from a salary hike for

Mobile phone users will have to be compensated for every case of call drop and network failure, State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim said yesterday.

State-owned banks likely sold dollars on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India to prevent the local currency from weakening further, three

The telecom regulator is going to analyse the cost components in providing internet services, to determine a pricing guideline for the

State-owned commercial banks saw their operating profits decline 4.69 percent year-on-year in 2015 owing to low credit growth and

The leaders of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) demanded a single-digit interest rate on bank loans, low-

Two more investment banks have reported paying zero tax in Britain in 2014, prompting the opposition Labour party to urge the

The association of mobile phone top-up and banking vendors yesterday threatened to go for a strike if their seven-point demands,

Banks' overall capital base went up 6.58 percent in the third quarter of 2015 from three months earlier as the asset quality of private

Economic initiatives helped reduce poverty in Bangladesh but inequality could not be reduced as the two different concepts should be

Banks managed to log in profits for 2015 despite a tough start to the year by way of political turmoil for the first