Crown Cement starts running 6th unit

Crown Cement, one of Bangladesh’s leading cement makers, yesterday announced that it has been able to finally start commercial production at a sixth unit earlier this month on deferring it several times.
15 January 2024, 16:15 PM

Biman title sponsor of Feb 8 tourism fair

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has become the title sponsor of the 19th edition of an upcoming international tourism fair styled “Biman-Dhaka Travel Mart 2024”.
15 January 2024, 15:30 PM

Dutch-Bangla Bank to sell Pragati Life’s insurance products

Pragati Life Insurance signed a bancassurance agreement with Dutch-Bangla Bank recently, enabling the bank’s customers to purchase the life insurer’s diverse range of insurance products through the bank’s extensive network of branches.
15 January 2024, 15:15 PM

Sonali Life Insurance board suspends CEO

Just 15 days past a regulatory audit being initiated against him, the chairperson of Sonali Life Insurance has informed that its board of directors had suspended its chief executive officer (CEO) yesterday over allegations of misappropriating funds
14 January 2024, 18:00 PM

BEZIA holds EGM

Bangladesh Economic Zone Investors Association (BEZIA) has organised the association’s 1st extraordinary general meeting (EGM) at Ascott the Residence Dhaka hotel in the capital today.
13 January 2024, 15:30 PM

Gulshan Society, Smart Air to raise awareness on air quality

Gulshan Society has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Smart Air Bangladesh to raise awareness on air quality.
13 January 2024, 15:22 PM

Dutch-Bangla Bank to sell Guardian Life’s products

Guardian Life Insurance recently signed a bancassurance agreement with Dutch-Bangla Bank, enabling the bank to sell the insurer’s insurance solutions to its retail customers.
13 January 2024, 15:15 PM

Green Delta Securities to work for Community Bank Investment as panel broker

Green Delta Securities, a brokerage house and subsidiary of Green Delta Insurance Company, recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Community Bank Investment, a merchant bank and subsidiary of Community Bank.
11 January 2024, 16:17 PM

Singer launches ‘Marhaba Istanbul’ campaign

Singer Bangladesh has launched a new campaign, styled “Singer Marhaba Istanbul”, which offers a four-day and three-night trip to Istanbul tailored for couples.
11 January 2024, 16:10 PM

Import-control measures affecting industrial output

Import-control measures and energy shortages are affecting the industrial output of a number of countries in South Asia, including Bangladesh, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).
10 January 2024, 19:00 PM

Square Pharmas logged Tk 1,898cr profit in FY23

Square Pharmaceuticals registered a 4.53 percent year-on-year growth in profit to Tk 1,898 crore
10 January 2024, 16:10 PM

German Business Council gets new chairman, treasurer

German Business Council (GBC), an association of German companies operating in Bangladesh, has elected its chairman and treasurer at its first annual general meeting (AGM) in Laila Tower on Gulshan Avenue in Dhaka today.
10 January 2024, 14:45 PM

BGMEA transforming RMG industry into global sustainability leader

The readymade garment industry in Bangladesh has embarked on a transformative journey, propelled by the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).
9 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Eastern Lubricants’ expenses surpass revenue

Eastern Lubricants Blenders Ltd has seen its direct expenses exceed overall revenue in the second quarter of the financial year ending in June 2024.
9 January 2024, 16:20 PM

IFC to finance Labaid’s cardiac hospital in Uttara

Labaid to set up new hospital in Uttara
9 January 2024, 07:09 AM

MTB to sell Pragati Life Insurance’s products

Pragati Life Insurance recently signed a bancassurance agreement with Mutual Trust Bank (MTB), enabling the bank’s customers to conveniently access and purchase the life insurer’s diverse range of insurance products.
8 January 2024, 14:45 PM

‘Focus on good governance and job creation’

Job creation, good governance that will ensure stability, are expected from the new govt, says a top business leader
7 January 2024, 01:00 AM

Rafiqul Islam made BFIU executive director

Md Rafiqul Islam has recently been promoted to the post of executive director of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), an anti-money laundering agency.
4 January 2024, 16:12 PM

Gazi elected president, Gani secy gen of BFUJ faction

Ruhul Amin Gazi and Quader Gani Chowdhury have been elected president and secretary general of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) respectively
4 January 2024, 15:30 PM

StanChart, TMSS partner to give seeds to 2,000 onion farmers

Standard Chartered Bangladesh has partnered with Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS) to initiate a project under which they will distribute onion seeds to 2,000 farmers in three different districts of the country: Bogura, Pabna and Faridpur.
3 January 2024, 14:50 PM