He is also the president of FBCCI and BPGMEA

Senior commerce secretary says after meeting with USTR

Agriculture minister says

The US government could start to run out of money if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by the end of the month. DW looks at the wider impact of a possible debt default.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Md Mustafizur Rahman pays a courtesy call on Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma

Tipu Munshi sits with Uzbek Deputy Foreign Minister Bakhrom Aloev

Tk 66.27 crore will be spent

Sugar prices across the world could soar further due to a decline in production in India – the commodity's largest producer – and export restrictions imposed by the government

Migrant workers, especially from Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal, make up about 80% of the workforce on Malaysia's labour-reliant estates

Bangladesh will replace Pakistan in the board

This will be the 14th edition of the two-day show

Oil prices dipped on Wednesday, stalling a three-day rally, as an unexpected rise in US oil inventories sparked demand concerns, while investors awaited US inflation data to gauge the next rate decision in the top oil consuming nation.

China's imports contracted sharply in April, while exports rose at a slower pace, reinforcing signs of feeble domestic demand despite the lifting of COVID curbs and heaping pressure on an economy already struggling in the face of cooling global growth.

Wheat and maize prices declined 11 per cent and 14 per cent, respectively, in the global markets in the past two weeks while rice prices have remained relatively unchanged, according to the World Bank's Food Security Update.

It hit $29.77 billion on May 7

The central bank took the decision to comply with IMF's loan conditions

Deposits at US commercial banks fell toward the end of April to the lowest in nearly two years, data released on Friday by the Federal Reserve showed, while overall credit provided by banks moved up, led by a record level of outstanding loans and leases.

The Federal Reserve is expected on Wednesday to raise interest rates and perhaps signal a pause in its 14-month tightening cycle, as policymakers balance the need to slow inflation against a pressing set of risks ranging from bank failures to the possibility of a U.S. debt default as soon as next month.

US regulators are trying to clinch a sale of First Republic Bank (FRC.N) over the weekend, with roughly half a dozen banks bidding, sources said on Saturday, in what is likely to be the third major US bank to fail in two months.

Financial pressures are adding to strains caused by high interest rates, volatile oil prices and years of double-digit inflation.