Reuters reported this month that BYD had submitted a $1 billion investment proposal to build electric cars and batteries in India in partnership with a local company.

It hit 43.6% in 2023 from 4.8% in 2013, BBS survey finds

Australian assistant minister assures Bangladesh

The amount rises to $609.02 billion

Two weeks ago, McDonald's restaurants in India dropped tomatoes from their burgers and wraps in many parts of India due to quality issues.

Romania's Constanta port, Ukraine's main alternative route for grain since Russia's withdrawal led to the collapse of the Black Sea shipment deal, has capacity to handle extra cargoes until mid-August, the head of the port's business association said.

Just a decade ago, Fazli, Himsagar, Langra and Gopalbhog mangoes were the most popular varieties of the fruit among consumers in Bangladesh.

The government managed to spend 84.16 per cent of its development budget in the just-concluded fiscal year, way lower than its averages in recent decades, official figures showed yesterday.

DBL Lifestyles, a concern of DBL Group, yesterday opened an outlet to sell products of Nike, a US-based athletic footwear and apparel maker, in Dhaka city.

Crystal Insurance Company Ltd has decided to invest Tk 12.5 crore as a sponsor shareholder to establish a digital bank.

A coach was giving a pep talk to his team before a big game.

The price of each bhori of gold has crossed the Tk 1,00,000-mark for the first time in Bangladesh as Bangladesh Jewellers Samity (Bajus) has hiked the rate of the precious metal with effect from today. 

Though the monsoon is just two months in, there has been lesser rainfall than usual this year, leading to apprehensions among jute growers in Faridpur and Rajbari over finding water sources for retting. 

Extreme heat has gripped many parts of the world as June saw the warmest global average temperature on record and the trend continued into July, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). 

Some 50 scheduled banks led by Dhaka Bank Ltd recently organised a “School Banking Conference” at Aman Ullah Convention Center in Sylhet to encourage students to start saving money from an early age. 

Bank Asia Limited has launched a new version of its “SMART App” with advanced features to ensure more convenient, secure and state-of-the-art banking services for customers. 

Trust Bank declared 20 per cent dividends for the year that ended on December 31, 2022.

Some 3,000 workers of about 100 factories in Bangladesh have been trained in fire safety with support of International Labour Organization over the past year. 

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur organised a workshop for the one country one priority product project in Asia and the Pacific at the institute’s Kazi Badruddoza auditorium yesterday.

Poverty reduction and income inequality are still big challenges for Bangladesh despite its looming graduation from a least developed country in 2026, according to Planning Minister MA Mannan.