The government will inspect multi-storied commercial buildings (market buildings) in areas under Dhaka North and South City Corporations to strengthen the building safety measures.

The stock market in Bangladesh opened higher today, breaking three days’ losing streak.

Construction of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge has given a huge morale boost to local developers that were engaged in building approach roads and other facilities related to the Tk 30,200 crore bridge, which is the largest in Bangladesh.

Sovereign debt, which is usually in the form of securities, is issued by a nation’s government to borrow money and may also be referred to as government debt, public debt, and national debt. This borrowing is done for a variety of reasons, from financing public investments to boosting employment.

Furniture makers are passing tough times even ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, which is usually a high sales period, as people are uninterested in buying luxury items in the face of rampant inflation in recent months, according to market players.

Government borrowing from banking sources has gone up significantly this month as it is now on a spending spree to materialise different development and non-development programmes by the time this fiscal year ends. 

The currency of Bangladesh has depreciated further against the US dollar, hitting Tk 92.95 on the interbank platform yesterday. 

Laptop users in Bangladesh are set for a bigger hit as the imposition of a 15 per cent value-added tax at the import stage of the essential digital device would lift the prices further. 

The stock market received little focus in the proposed national budget for fiscal year 2022-23, said stock market specialists yesterday. 

Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) Foundation recently signed an agreement with Manabik Shahajya Sangstha (MSS) to provide eye care facilities to the underprivileged segment of the country.

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Tuesday reduced to 21 the minimum age at which women can go abroad for work and earn much-needed dollars for the bankrupt economy.

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange declined for the third consecutive day yesterday owing to persisting economic uncertainty, runaway inflation and the latest floods.    

Checkpoint Systems Bangladesh Ltd-Unit 2, a Netherlands-based company, will invest $10.52 million to establish a garment accessories manufacturing factory at the economic zone of the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (Bepza).

Md Habib Ullah Dawn and Mohammed Shahidul Islam have been elected uncontested as president and secretary general respectively of the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (Barvida) for a two-year term.

Md Habib Ullah Dawn and Mohammed Shahidul Islam have been elected uncontested as president and secretary general respectively of the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (Barvida) for a two-year term.

The envoy expressed her country’s willingness in a meeting with Bangladesh’s Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque at the secretariat in Dhaka.

The Bangladesh currency today depreciated further against the US dollar, hitting Tk 92.95 on the interbank platform.

Shares on the Dhaka Stock Exchange declined today for the fourth consecutive day owing to persisting economic uncertainty, runaway inflation and the latest floods.

The stock market in Bangladesh continued to fall for the third consecutive day today amid the lower participation of investors.

Panic and uncertainty have gripped the relatives of people living in flood-hit Sylhet and Sunamganj as they are unable to communicate with their loved ones due to an electricity blackout that has put about half of the local mobile network towers out of commission.