All indexes of Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges fell yesterday as worried investors kept their selling spree amid disappointing quarterly earnings reported by listed companies.

A total of 96 students who secured first position in various departments of the University of Rajshahi have been awarded “Bangabandhu Swarna Padak, Agrani Bank”. 

Social Islami Bank’s Chairman Md Mahbub Ul Alam and Additional Managing Director Abu Reza Md Yeahia resigned from their respective posts last week.

All indexes of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell today for the second straight trading session.

Seventy four per cent of entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises (SME) across eight divisions of Bangladesh were directly affected by corruption while doing business. 

Clearing and Forwarding Agents (C&F) officials and employees have suspended import-export activities at all customs houses across the country including Chattogram port..The C&F agents have started a two-day strike to press home their eight-point demand..“We have been compelled to obs

The disbursement of foreign assistance for development projects in Bangladesh fell by 9.48 per cent in the first half of the current fiscal year due to sluggish implementation and a lack of budgetary support.

Bangladesh’s conglomerates have lost Tk 65,000 crore over the past one year because of the fluctuation of the value of the taka against the US dollar as loans have become costlier due to the volatile global economy, said a noted economist yesterday. 

Encouraged by their success in tulip cultivation last year, farmers across Bangladesh have sown the decorative plant in more areas of the country this winter season, especially in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh.

Tea production in Bangladesh has decreased by nearly 3 per cent year-on-year in 2022.

Bangladesh’s banking sector now requires comprehensive reforms for the financial sector to become strong enough to augment a transition to an upper middle-income country by 2031, said Edimon Ginting, country director of Asian Development Bank (ADB), yesterday. 

Higher inflation, debt crisis and severe commodity price shocks are some of the major economic risks Bangladesh may face in the upcoming years, a new survey of executives warned.

Two subsidiaries of Pran Group -- AMCL Pran and Rangpur Foundry Ltd (RFL) -- saw a fall in profits during the July-December period of fiscal 2022-23 due to various pressures resulting from ongoing global economic crises.

Advertising agency Expressions recently celebrated 30 years of operations. 

Suzuki Motor Corp will invest 4.5 trillion yen ($34.8 billion) through fiscal 2030 in research, development and capital spending to make battery electric vehicles (EVs), it said recently.

The Padma Oil Company saw a big jump in profits in the October-December period of 2022 thanks to an increase in its non-operating income and higher sales volume.

Most of the shares on Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges fell yesterday as investors booked profit and remained cautious as most companies reported either profit declines or losses.

Nagad has won the “Posts and Telecommunications Award 2023” for its outstanding contribution to digital innovations in Bangladesh’s mobile financial service industry.

A weeklong Expo Paint and Coating-2023 organised by the Bangladesh Paint Manufacturers’ Association (BPMA) to promote over 100 brands of paint and coating products from home and abroad ended at International Convention Centre Basundhara in Dhaka yesterday. 

Pakistan’s ministry of finance announced on Sunday petrol and diesel prices would rise by 35 rupees ($0.1400) a litre after the country’s currency value plummeted this week when price caps were removed.