The surge in public borrowing from banks has significantly elevated the risk of further reducing the availability of credit to the private sector through two channels. One channel is through reducing the availability of liquidity for lending to the private sector. The other channel is interest rates.

Shares of five government banks will be on offer by October 31, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says.

World Bank Group together with WEConnect International has launched a project to help 1,200 women-owned businesses connect with potential large local and multinational corporate buyers.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 9, 2020

After the shortest awards season in decades, the 92nd annual Academy Awards will get underway Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The red carpet is being rolled out two to three weeks earlier than usual in a bid to freshen up a ceremony and potentially boost ratings.

Former governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Atiur Rahman has been made special adviser to the newly formed action tank on financial inclusion, Creative Response-Social Innovation School in Japan.

The senior officials of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal have agreed to expeditiously finalise passenger and cargo protocols for implementation of the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal Motor Vehicles Agreement (BBIN-MVA).

A Dhaka court takes cognisance of charges against Mizanur Rahman, suspended deputy inspector general (DIG) of police, and Khandaker Enamul Basir, suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission, in a bribery case.

Seven workers suffered burn injuries when they were melting iron at a steel mill at Kadamtali area in the capital this morning.

A former leader of Awami League has been murdered in Companiganj upazila of Noakhali.

Foreigners who have travelled to China on January 15 and after will be barred from entering India by land, air and sea routes in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus has surged past 800 in mainland China, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization said the outbreak appeared to be "stabilising".

A Thai soldier who killed at least 26 people before being shot dead in a mall by commandos goes on rampage because of a debt dispute, the kingdom's premier says, offering the first official motive for the "unprecedented" shooting spree.

Police arrest a man in a case filed against him for raping his daughter-in-law multiple times over a five-month period in Dupchanchia upazila of Bogura.

Miscreants tried to rob a branch of United Commercial Bank (UCB) Limited in Chattogram early yesterday by drugging the security guard, but they apparently failed to break the bank vault.

A local businessperson was stabbed to death in Shathiya upazila of Pabna this evening.

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq calls upon BNP leaders to try to read and understand newly passed laws before coming up with their reactions over those.

Thousands of farmers and traders in Khulna region are incurring losses worth Tk four crore every day as crab and eel exports to China have been suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 8, 2020

Two police officials of Panchbibi Police Station in Joypurhat were suspended this afternoon for releasing a drug peddler after taking Tk 2 lakh from him.