Prime Bank recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Dhali’s Amber Nivaas Resort, a luxury resort in Munshiganj near Dhaka city.

The Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) yesterday requested the revenue authority to lift all import tariffs on onion until December 31 this year as its domestic prices spiked after India slapped 40 percent export duty on the vegetable.

Falling export of jute and jute goods is now having an effect on jute growers as prices of the natural fibre have fallen during the current harvesting season. 

Electro Mart Ltd, manufacturer of the Konka brand of products, recently announced launching family-oriented reality game show “Konka Shera Poribar Season 2”. 

GPH Ispat Quality Control Lab, a steel re-bar manufacturing company in Bangladesh, recently received accreditation certificate from Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) for ensuring the quality of the manufactured products.

Salim Rahman has been elected as the chairman of the executive committee of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd (AIBL) in the 390th meeting of the board of directors of the bank on Sunday.

Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) yesterday urged merchant bankers to bring companies with good performance records to the stock market. 

Hosting data locally by domestic companies would help Bangladesh save a huge volume of US dollars that are otherwise needed to store them abroad and ease the current foreign exchange crisis, experts said yesterday.

Educational qualifications get higher priority than professional skills in case of judging any person’s ability in Bangladesh, which is why the skilled ones remain unutilised and unrecognised in different sectors, experts said yesterday.

United Commercial Bank (UCB) organised a daylong agricultural entrepreneurship skills training in two districts -- Dinajpur and Gaibandha -- under the initiative of Agro-CSR Project 2023 styled “Voroshar Notun Janala”.

Mutual Trust Bank Ltd (MTB) recently signed an agreement with Shakti Foundation on cash management services.

Tasty Treat, a fast food retail brand of Pran-RFL Group, recently launched two outlets at Sheikh Para and Gol Chattor of Khalishpur in Khulna.

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International market prices of poultry feed ingredients had dropped in the second quarter of this calendar year, yet locally produced feed has turned anything but cheap. 

Loans, leases and investments extended by non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to ship manufacturers could be rescheduled for up to 10 years as the central bank took the initiative to help beleaguered borrowers resume making installments.

With a huge deficit in its financial account balance and foreign exchange reserves depleting, Bangladesh’s main challenge in the coming months will be tackling foreign exchange shocks, said economists yesterday.  

Onion prices at wholesale and retail markets in Bangladesh rose overnight yesterday after India imposed a 40 percent duty on exports of the bulb.

The much-awaited Rooppur nuclear power plant is coming along at more or less the expected pace but the country has to wait longer to enjoy the benefits as the power evacuation facility from the plant would not be ready on time.