Alesha pays back from today

Crisis-ridden e-commerce portal Alesha Mart starts today (Thursday) the refunding of its customers from the money that got stuck with the SSL Payment gateway.As part of the move, a meeting on refunding the stuck funds is expected to be held at commerce ministry.After the meeting, senior commerce secretary Tapan Kanti...

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Unilever begins retailing products of other brands

Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) giant Unilever Bangladesh opts for distributing products of other brands to retailers, in a maiden strategic business shift.The multinational company plans to generate revenue amounting to over €300 million annually from this B2B marketplace, informed sources told the FE.A B2B (business to business) marketplace is a...

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Ease housing finance

Speakers at a roundtable on Wednesday emphasised reasonable mortgage, small and easy housing finance, development of bond and capital markets for home financing, targeted subsidies, planned urbanisation, and decentralisation of administration for ensuring affordable housing for all.They said urbanisation planning should not be taken centring the capital Dhaka. Rather, the...

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Revenue resurrection helps cut budget deficit

Bangladesh's widening budget deficit narrowed to Tk 1.29 trillion in the past fiscal year with the gap between spending and revenue earning declining amid economic recovery from pandemic-induced slump.Economists conversant with the corona-time economics, however, attribute much of the lower deficit to tightfisted public spending when people and businesses at...

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Prayer Timings 2022-02-17

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