Weekly Recap / Five takeaways from Bangladesh's economy last week
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Business
Gold rises for second day
3 July 2026, 19:13 PM
Economy
FY26 exports slip despite $4.2b June rebound
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Economy
Exports falter, remittances rise: What does this tell us?
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Economy
Govt clarifies stance on LDC graduation
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Economy
Only one-fifth of digital connectivity project done in 4.5 years
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Economy
ITFC to provide $3.3b for energy, fertiliser in FY27
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Economy
Bangladesh ranks 47th in financial secrecy index
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Economy
Bad weather, storage crisis turn record onion harvest into losses
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Economy
Work from home: Worshipping the office chair
3 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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High prices, freight costs take a toll on vegetable exports
The exports of fresh vegetables decreased 57.93 percent year-on-year in the first six months of the current fiscal year, official figures showed..Vegetables fetched $70.36 million in the July-December period of fiscal year 2023-24, and in the same period of fiscal year 2024-25 it was $29.6
6 January 2025, 15:18 PM
Renata ships first batch of psychiatric disorder medicines to US
The tablet, Risperidone, is locally marketed as Sperid
6 January 2025, 14:26 PM
Stocks rebound riding on large-cap shares
The benchmark index of the Dhaka bourse rose 0.65% today
6 January 2025, 13:56 PM
Import disruptions cripple Banglabandha land port operations
Protests by Indian truck operators over online slot-booking issues caused the disruption
6 January 2025, 11:52 AM
BIDA unveils upgraded portal for one-stop services
The portal offers 134 services from 44 organisations
6 January 2025, 08:43 AM
Inflation eases in December but stays over 10%
Arrival of winter vegetables contributes to the decline
6 January 2025, 05:41 AM
Dhaka stocks rise in early trade
The DSEX, the premier index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), was up 0.13 percent as of 11 am today
6 January 2025, 05:37 AM
Dollar on track for best week in a month
The dollar dipped on Friday but was on track for its strongest weekly performance in a month on expectations that the US economy will continue to outperform its peers globally this year and that US interest rates will stay relatively higher.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
RMG accessories expo to begin in Dhaka from Jan 8
The 14th edition of the International Garment Accessories and Packaging Expo (GAPEXPO) 2025 will be held in Dhaka from January 8 to 11.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
China is ‘determined’ to open up to world in 2025
China is “determined” to continue opening up its economy to the world in 2025, a top economic planning official said Friday, as Beijing steels itself for potential trade turmoil when US President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
EV sales hit record in UK
The UK car industry sold a record number of all-electric vehicles in 2024 but still fell short of the government’s mandated targets, an industry trade body said Saturday.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Baghabari port fading from inland water map as river silts up
Once a key supply hub for agricultural inputs and fuel to the greater northern region, Baghabari river port in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj is now seeing more and more cargo vessels avoiding it due to years of neglect in navigability management and inadequate port facilities.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
NBR plans to phase out tax exemptions
While hiking value-added tax (VAT) on 43 goods and services, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is also focusing on widening income tax coverage by phasing out exemptions to raise the tax to GDP ratio.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Home textile exports bounce back
The export of home textiles is on the path to recovery after nearly one year because of the devaluation of the local currency, increased production capacity and improvement in gas supplies to some extent.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
The MGI story: From Tk 600 in his pocket to a Tk 36,000cr business empire
The company is exporting to more than 52 countries and employs over 50,000 people
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Inflation boosts minipack sales
People are switching to shampoo mini-packs from regular bottles, women are sacrificing their tiny luxuries of cosmetic puffs while households are embracing cheap but substandard detergents for laundry: this is exactly what happens when brutal price pressures push around 78 lakh people below the poverty line in just two years and stalk another 1 crore to do so.
5 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Economist Prof Anisur Rahman no more
Prof Anisur Rahman, economist and member of the country’s first Planning Commission formed after independence, died at a hospital in the capital yesterday at the age of 91.
5 January 2025, 14:10 PM
Dhaka stocks fall for second day
Technical glitch delays day’s stock trading at the DSE by 1.5 hours
5 January 2025, 11:50 AM
Trading resumes at DSE from 11:30 am
Unavoidable circumstances led to the halt, says DSE
5 January 2025, 05:07 AM
BB finds Tk 82.44 lakh mismatch in BRAC Bank vault, books
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has found a mismatch of Tk 82.44 lakh between cash kept in BRAC Bank’s Chokoria branch vault in Cox’s Bazar and that mentioned in its books..The difference was detected during an inspection of the central bank..The BB started the inspection on December 22 las
4 January 2025, 18:27 PM