Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks to bar fund transfers by Nagad while keeping the mobile financial services available to customers.

Jobs in Bangladesh are not being created in line with the demand from its youth population, leading to a rise in unemployment despite the urgent need for more job opportunities.

Nearly two-thirds of the allocations under this fiscal year’s social security budget do not qualify as genuine social protection spending, according to a study by the Citizens Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh.

The debate over whether to lease out the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at Chittagong Port to a foreign operator is intensifying, with political parties, including the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and left-leaning groups, uniting in opposition.

Factory output in China grew at a faster rate than expected last month, official data showed Monday, weathering a brutal trade war with Washington.

As a result, severe traffic congestion was reported on both the Agrabad-Patenga and Patenga-Ring roads since 2:00pm

The government implemented only 41% of ADP in 10 months

Bangladesh shipped $5.98 billion worth of apparels to the EU in the first three months of 2025

The silver lining is that the economy isn’t falling apart

The DSEX dropped 14.75 points to 4,776.33

Daily exports through the port halved after the restriction

“If there is no stability in the economy, no other reform will be sustainable,” he said.

The DSEX lost 3.18 points to 4,787.90 as of 11:48 am

The non-tariff barriers hurt Bangladesh-India trade, increasing costs and damaging bilateral trust

Additional 330,000 people became jobless in Oct-Dec 2024

Trust Bank PLC reported a fall in profit for the first quarter of 2025, as rising expenses dented its earnings.

The government will form an independent board to run mobile financial service provider Nagad, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed said yesterday.

Some manufacturers say they are now opting to reduce office utility consumption, optimise office supplies, minimise bank dependence, and find alternative funding sources.

Bangladesh’s government recently enacted a long-awaited reform measure: dissolving the National Board of Revenue (NBR) and splitting it into two new agencies. The goal is to separate the tax policymaking and implementation processes, in line with a key conditionality of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the next tranche of disbursements.

Employees of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday vowed to continue their pen-down strike against a May 12 ordinance on restructuring the revenue administration, unless Chief Adviser (CA) Prof Muhammad Yunus or a representative proposes a mediation.