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Organisation News
Meghna Bank signs deal with EkPay
Meghna Bank signed an agreement with EkPay, a centralised e-payment system of a2i of the government, in Dhaka recently.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
BB injects Tk 4,000cr into 5 Islamic banks
Five Islamic banks yesterday borrowed nearly Tk 4,000 crore from Bangladesh Bank right after a liquidity support arrangement was offered by the central bank to cash-strapped Shariah-based banks.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh can be a market for 300cr people
Bangladesh is the most ideal place for investment in the world and can become an investment centre for a market of 300 crore people, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Proper policies needed for ‘Smart Bangladesh’
The main challenges towards building a “Smart Bangladesh” are formulating proper policies and integrating government and academic entities and service providers, said experts yesterday.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Developing economies’ debt doubles over decade: WB
The external debt of developing economies has more than doubled from a decade ago to $9 trillion in 2021, the World Bank said Tuesday, warning the debt crisis facing these countries has intensified.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Mindshare wins Campaign’s Agency of the Year awards
Mindshare Bangladesh has won awards for overall achievements in advertising and brand communications since the early 1990s in two categories at the Campaign’s Agency of the Year awards 2022.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Walton launches hire purchase and family protection policy
Walton has launched a hire purchase and family protection policy along with a one-stop service solution.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Carbon emission to be cut by 22% within 2030
Bangladesh is one of the lowest carbon emitters in the world, but still the country is committed to cut carbon emissions by 89.47 million tonnes or 21.85 per cent of carbon dioxide by 2030, FBCCI President Md Jashim Uddin said yesterday.
6 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Monetary policy to be formulated twice a year: BB
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has again decided to formulate monetary policy twice a year as per the advice of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
6 December 2022, 15:25 PM
Europe’s inflation problem will linger for years to come
Euro zone inflation may have peaked but will subside so slowly that it could be years before it gets back to the European Central Bank's 2 per cent target, keeping pressure on the ECB to tighten policy well into 2023.
6 December 2022, 13:16 PM
‘Bangladesh committed to cut carbon emission by 22% within 2030’
Bangladesh is the globe’s one of the lowest carbon emitters, but still the country is committed to cut carbon emissions by 89.47 million tonnes or 21.85 per cent of carbon dioxide by 2030, FBCCI President Md Jashim Uddin said today.
6 December 2022, 12:59 PM
Turnover on Dhaka Stock Exchange slips below Tk 300 crore
Turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange slipped below Tk 300 crore today reflecting investors’ persisting worry about the direction of the economy.
6 December 2022, 11:39 AM
Kans grass straw boosts income of char farmers
Kans grass has emerged as a significant source of income for farmers in char areas of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat, where the perennial herb native to the Indian subcontinent grows easily on sandy soil.
6 December 2022, 05:00 AM
First factory in Srihatta economic zone starts journey
Srihatta Economic Zone has become active as a door and window manufacturing company started production in the special area in Moulvibazar’s Sherpur.
6 December 2022, 04:00 AM
The sensitivity of direct tax realisation
Taxation has four main purposes: revenue, redistribution, re-pricing, and representation.
6 December 2022, 03:30 AM
Inflation falling, but not for rural people
Though inflation continued to undergo a downward trend for a third consecutive month in November, non-food inflation in rural areas entered into double digits last month for the first time in recent times.
6 December 2022, 03:00 AM
Walton makes Bangladesh’s maiden electric bike
Walton Digi-Tech Industries Ltd, a concern of Walton Group, has launched Bangladesh’s maiden electric bike in the market, jumping on the bandwagon of a global shift towards eco-friendly transportation.
6 December 2022, 02:30 AM
Islami Bank’s loan scams were not unknown to policymakers
Information about S Alam Group has bought a bank with money from another lender and taken controlling stakes in other banks is surfacing now, but people in the banking sector and involved in economic policy-making knew about the developments, said Ahsan H Mansur, executive director of the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh.
6 December 2022, 02:00 AM
Stocks keep falling
Shares on the Dhaka and Chattogram stock exchanges fell for the second consecutive day yesterday as shaky investors went for selling while some adopted the ‘wait-and-see’ stance amid the ongoing gloomy market trend.
5 December 2022, 18:00 PM
Economists call for visible actions
The country’s top economists yesterday unanimously suggested the Bangladesh Bank take visible actions against irregularities at Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL), scamsters and willful loan defaulters to restore confidence in the banking sector.
5 December 2022, 18:00 PM