Govt links 12,000 institutions to broadband
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3 September 2026 Business
Bangladesh Travel Mart 2026 begins today
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3 September 2026 Business
Reforms can boost leather, footwear exports to $5b by 2030: Nasim Manzur
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3 September 2026 Business
Price of bottled soybean oil rises by Tk 5 a litre
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2 September 2026 Business
BSEC approves Desco’s Tk 45.9 crore preference shares
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Banks’ bad loans surpass Tk 6 lakh crore again
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BB pushes for passage of two banking laws
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1 September 2026 Business
Bangladesh's exports rise 5.43% in July-August
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1 September 2026 Business

Mobile operators divided over inter-connection charges

Mobile phone operators stand divided over inter-connection charges, with two of them seeking absolute removal of the fees, and three others opposing it.
17 August 2015

Garment exports suffer biggest fall in nine months

Garment exports declined 11.96 percent year-on-year to $2.21 billion in July, as political crisis during January-March affected orders.
16 August 2015

GP launches new internet campaign

Mobile operator Grameenphone yesterday launched a new campaign -- Easy Net -- to raise awareness on the use of internet.
16 August 2015

Leather sector's exports cross $1b for second year

Exports of leather and leather goods crossed $1 billion for the second year in fiscal 2014-15, according to data from the Export
15 August 2015

BTRC to slash mobile call charges

The telecom regulator is set to reduce the inter-operator charges in a bid to lower the call rate for users.
15 August 2015

BTRC to monitor mobile internet speed in rural areas

The telecom regulator is set to start a field-level monitoring drive Saturday in three districts to gauge the quality of data service
13 August 2015

Exports fall 12pc in July

Exports fell 12 percent year-on-year to $2.62 billion in July, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau.
13 August 2015

Tarana raids shops for unregistered SIMs

State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim yesterday confiscated at least 15 SIM cards of four mobile operators in an impromptu raid on
13 August 2015

US congresswoman supports Dhaka’s trade preferences

US congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney supports Bangladesh's persistent call for restoration of trade benefits for exports to the US market.
11 August 2015

Bandwidth export to India begins next month

Bangladesh will begin exporting bandwidth -- 10 gigabits per second -- to India's northeastern state of Tripura within the first week of September, officials said.
9 August 2015

Mobile phone operators seek fair tax regime

Mobile operators yesterday demanded a fair tax regime and a level-playing field, saying they pay higher corporate tax than other sectors do.
9 August 2015

Bharti Airtel expands 4G footprint ahead of rival launch

India's top mobile operator Bharti Airtel Ltd said on Thursday it launched fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology in 296 towns,
6 August 2015

Taiwan's HTC posts biggest ever quarterly loss

Taiwan's struggling smartphone maker HTC suffered its biggest ever quarterly loss in the three months to June, as sales of its high-
6 August 2015

India likely to bring in rules to make mills export sugar stocks

India is likely to bring in rules to make it compulsory for sugar mills to export millions of tonnes of surplus supplies to support local
5 August 2015

BTCL gets new managing director

Golam Fakhruddin Ahmed Chowdhury has recently been appointed as the managing director of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL), the company said in a statement yesterday.
4 August 2015

Telecom networks sign up more users

The telecom sector saw good growth in the first half of the current year as both SIM and internet connection numbers grew remarkably.
4 August 2015

Export more to India to reduce trade gap: Saran

Bangladeshi businesses should export more to the Indian market of 1.2 billion people to narrow the huge bilateral trade gap between the countries, Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Saran said yesterday.
3 August 2015

Ease rules to attract more foreign funds in telecom

The government should relax the rules to attract more foreign firms to invest in Bangladesh, said a report developed by Grameenphone and its major shareholder Telenor Group with the support of LIRNEasia.
2 August 2015

Tech neutrality to be included in telecom policy

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday instructed the telecom division to include technology neutrality
30 July 2015

BTRC revenue slips to four-year low

The telecom regulator's revenue slumped 59.26 percent year-on-year to Tk 4,109 crore last fiscal year -- a four-year low.
30 July 2015