With a view to connecting Bangladesh’s women entrepreneurs to the global market, the maiden International Women Entrepreneurship Conference 2022 is going to be held in the country next month. 

The government has extended the deadline for exporting hilsa to India to October 5 following pleas from traders, according to a circular from the commerce ministry yesterday.  

Proper use of government-approved vehicle tracking systems (VTSs) can help in management of private, commercial and mass transport and control drivers’ movement, which will eventually play a big role in reducing road accidents, an expert said today.

Both Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges closed lower today snapping their three-day gaining streak as the clouds over the economy darkened further after a fall in exports and remittance receipts in September.

Women´s contributions to climate action are severely limited by systems that downplay women´s roles, capacity, and potential. Greater access to sustainable and gender-equitable green finance will help women be frontrunners in global efforts to address climate change.

Billions of consumers around the world are seeing higher oil prices seep into the cost of living and wages. Filling the gas tank soon starts to cost more when crude prices climb, as does airfare, but higher energy costs also boost prices for all the products on store shelves. Workers seek higher wages to compensate for a loss in their purchasing power.

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) edged down today snapping three days’ gaining streak.

Rather than going for mere expansion, Chattogram-based denim exporter Denim Expert Limited wants to attain perfection in its product and innovation as well as achieve environmental sustainability in order to turn the facility into a model factory. 

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is likely to extend a value added tax reduction on edible oil imports and refining for three months to retain current prices for consumers battered by rising costs of essential commodities. 

The economy of Bangladesh has continued to suffer from foreign exchange-related stress as both exports and remittances declined in September whereas import payments were almost unchanged. 

Export earnings dropped 6.25 per cent year-on-year to $3.9 billion in September, the first fall in 14 months, as the cost-of-living crisis in the western countries took its toll on Bangladesh’s main foreign currency earning sector.  

Scam-hit International Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (ILFSL) has kept losing money as it made losses in the first half of 2022. 

Apex Footwear Limited’s profit jumped more than 31 per cent year-on-year in the financial year that ended on June 30, 2022. 

Whether it is semi-controlled or self-censored media, corridor discussions or even Transparency International Bangladesh reports, we have been hearing about corruption in the public enterprises and inaction by the subsequent governments for the last many years.  

Businesspeople are frustrated with a section of government officials who harass them when they try to obtain trade licences, and cause delays in releasing goods from ports and renewal of trade documents.

GSP Finance Company (Bangladesh) Limited reported a lower profit in the first quarter of 2022.  

Prime Bank recently launched Japan Desk, a one-stop solution centre, in order to facilitate cross-border business initiatives and investments between Japan and Bangladesh.

Trade between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port will remain closed for four days on the occasion of Durga Puja.

Developed countries are already reaping the 4th industrial revolution’s (4IR) benefits whereas Bangladesh is still at its primary stage, necessitating prompt utilisation of the country’s current demographic dividend alongside the productivity of youths, said speakers at a programme yesterday. 

Chinese local governments may relax the floor on mortgage rates for first-time home buyers in some cities in phases, the central bank said on Thursday, in a bid to prop up property prices and revive a flagging engine of the world’s second-largest economy.