Removing irregularities from safety net schemes aimed at alleviating poverty could help pull 1.07 crore people out of hardship without spending any additional cost, according to speakers at a webinar.

A Singapore-bound container vessel has remained stranded in the Bay of Bengal for the last seven days on sustaining damage in a collision with an oil tanker, leading to uncertainties over shipment of its cargo.

Bangladeshi entrepreneurs are keen to invest in India particularly in West Bengal, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said today.

The Bangladesh Bank today asked banks to track shipments of exported goods to stop trade-based money laundering.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has increased the circuit breaker limit to 5 per cent from the existing 2 per cent with effect from tomorrow.

Stocks in Dhaka bourse continued to rise for the second consecutive day today.

The budget of the upcoming fiscal year will be presented on the national parliament on June 9, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

The effects of the war will propagate far and wide, adding to price pressures and exacerbating significant policy challenges.

Inflation in Bangladesh rocketed to a 17-month high in March driven by higher food costs as global uncertainties stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war and supply chain disruptions show no sign of abating, official figures showed yesterday.

The International Monetary Fund has revised down its economic growth projection for Bangladesh to 6.4 percent for the current fiscal year largely because of Russia-Ukraine war and supply chain disruptions.

Public expenditure for development programmes gained pace in March this fiscal year, taking the overall implementation rate to a three-year high of 45.5 per cent, according to official data.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday relaxed the rescheduling policy for short-term farm loans to support farmers in the wake of rising prices of agricultural items in the global market.

Stocks in the Dhaka bourse returned to the black yesterday on falling by a massive extent for the past two days while turnover rose 53 per cent.

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) yesterday served show cause notices to 15 stockbrokers for placing aggressive orders for selling shares.

NRB Bank has recently appointed Md Shaheen Howlader as deputy managing director (DMD).

Bangladesh’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector has shown phenomenal annual growth after the launch of the Digital Bangladesh initiative in 2010.

Bangladesh needs to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea that enables a win for both as the East Asian country previously attained huge success engaging in such bilateral agreements, experts said yesterday.

Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd, the country’s sole state-owned distillery, could face a shortage of sugar as sugarcane threshing at its mill in Chuadanga hit an all-time low this season.

Banks have been asked not to impose over 1 per cent interest on the exporters after disbursing fund from their own pocket and before being reimbursed from Bangladesh Bank’s export development fund (EDF).

Businesses based in Dhaka’s New Market area had to close down for most of yesterday due to a clash between students and traders, leaving them to face huge losses just one-and-a-half weeks ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest sales season in Bangladesh.