Business Plus / Land without utilities: The Sirajganj industrial gridlock
3 October 2026
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Business Plus / A fixed-income avenue opens for investors
26 September 2026
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Business Plus / The easy money trap
19 September 2026
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Business Plus / Their factories are still there. Their jobs are not
12 September 2026
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Business Plus / A cup of coffee, grown closer to home
5 September 2026
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Business Plus / A big shift opens in Islamic finance
29 August 2026
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Business Plus / The jute is gone, but Adamjee is busier than ever
22 August 2026
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Business Plus / The middle-class gutted by inflation
15 August 2026
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Business Plus / The fall of an industrial city
8 August 2026
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Business Plus / Money talks: Now the machines are listening
1 August 2026
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A walk down perfume lane
On a Wednesday afternoon, we were walking along one of the dusty roads of Dhaka that everyone can easily imagine – a path littered with debris and puddles of murky water.
8 March 2024
The other side of global retailers
While Bangladesh’s garment sector struggles to transition from basic products to high-end items, too many companies are going in for the same international contracts, intensifying competition among themselves.
1 March 2024
A garment powerhouse
Walk down the road in Savar, Gazipur or Narayanganj in the morning hours and you will see a long line of workers heading to work.
1 March 2024
Mirpur: From a backwater to an economic hotspot
Mirpur was best known as a garment manufacturing hub, a crime zone with rough roads, dirty alleyways, rundown buses, a capital of slums called home by apparel workers and a poor township marked by nondescript houses.
23 February 2024