Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed presides over a meeting of the Food Planning and Monitoring Committee at the secretariat in Dhaka on Sunday. Food Adviser Ali Imam Majumder was also present. — PID
United Finance PLC won the 3rd Bangladesh Fintech Award in the 'Non-Bank Financial Institution (NBFI)' category for its groundbreaking innovation -- United Finance Mobile App (UMA). Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Managing Director of United Finance, received the award from Hassan O....
Bank Asia PLC won the 'FinTech Innovation of the Year' award in the 'Financial Inclusion' category at the 3rd Bangladesh FinTech Award 2025 ceremony, earning national recognition for its micro merchant initiative. The award was presented at a ceremony organised...
Prime Bank PLC won the 'Fintech Innovation of the Year-Bank' award in recognition of launching Bangladesh's first Sign Language Call Service in the banking industry. The award was presented at the 3rd Bangladesh Fintech Award 2025 ceremony held at a...
RIYADH, Nov 09 (Arab News): The Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority, or Monsha'at, concluded the Biban Forum 2025, held over four days under the theme "Global Destination for Opportunities." The forum attracted more than 100,000 visitors and generated agreements...
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Bangladesh faces an increasingly precarious trade environment as global tariff regimes grow more volatile and geopolitics reshapes global supply chains, economists and policy analysts warned at a seminar in Dhaka on Sunday. Speaking at the event, titled "Navigating Geopolitical Dynamics:...
MTB Foundation, in partnership with Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID), recently observed the 'White Cane Safety Day 2025', celebrating this year's theme -- 'Vision beyond sight: Celebrating independence, resilience, and recognising achievements of the blind' -- to...
ZURICH, Nov 09 (Reuters): Switzerland could be close to winning a respite from the 39 per cent tariffs imposed by the United States on imports of its goods, newspaper Blick reported on Sunday, after a visit by business leaders to...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
After achieving a record procurement in the last Boro season, the government has decided to buy 0.7 million tonnes of rice and paddy from the local sources during the upcoming Aman harvesting season.It plans to collect 0.6 million tonnes of...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and the RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) are at odds over the latter's plan to expand monitoring of labour rights issues in the country's readymade garment (RMG) factories.On Sunday, the BGMEA issued a...
Eastern Bank PLC (EBL) inaugurated a new sub-branch at Foysal Dastagir Complex, Pahartali CDA Market, in Pahartali, Chattogram, on Sunday. M. Khorshed Anowar, DMD and Head of Retail and SME Banking; Mesbah Uddin Ahmed, Area Head, Chattogram; and Md. Rezaul...
Syngenta Bangladesh has been recognised as the 'Innovation Leader of the Year 2025' by the Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) at its Sustainability & Innovation Awards ceremony, which celebrate excellence in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) Bangladesh has recently hosted a roundtable discussion titled "Cotton Ecosystem: Strengthening Bangladesh's Apparel Value Chain" at a local hotel in Dhaka. Moderated by Md Mahbub ur Rahman, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Bangladesh,...
Mercantile Bank PLC launched its premium banking segment, 'Mercantile Priority Zenith', at MBL Centre in Dhaka on Sunday. Managing Director of the bank Mati Ul Hasan formally inaugurated the priority centre by cutting a ribbon. He mentioned that the launch...
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The proposal to remove the provision that makes Sadharan Bima Corporation (SBC) a mandatory reinsurer is intended to improve the claim settlement ratio of general insurers, not to undermine SBC's significance, said the insurance sector watchdog.The country had only a...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Power Grid has shown signs of recovery, with a year-on-year reduction in losses by as much as 54 per cent to Tk 2.10 billion in FY25, supported by higher revenue and favourable foreign exchange rates.Consequently, the power transmission company cut...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Stocks suffered a big jolt on Sunday as jittery investors went on a heavy sell-off of large-cap shares owing to prevailing political, regulatory, and banking sector uncertainties.Market analysts said investors dumped their holdings to escape further losses in the absence...
Weather may remain dry with partly cloudy sky until 6:00 pm today (Monday). Tempe- rature may fall slightly over the country. The highest temperature was recorded on Sunday at 32.6 degrees Celsius in Sandwip, while the lowest was 16.5 degrees...
The dengue situation continues to worsen, with six more deaths and 1,195 new hospitalisations recorded across the country in the 24 hours until Sunday morning, reports UNB.According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the latest figures bring this...
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For nearly three decades, students of Jahangirnagar University have been contributing fees to the Jahangirnagar University Central Students' Union (JUCSU) fund, but the university treasury holds no comprehensive financial records of the fund, states JUCSU General Secretary Mazharul Islam. He...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Assistant teachers at government primary schools across the country began an indefinite work abstention on Sunday, demanding implementation of a three-point charter of demands that includes upgrading their pay scale to the 10th grade.The Primary Teachers' Demand Implementation Council called...
BNP has withdrawn the expulsion orders against its 40 leaders from different wards under the Sylhet City Corporation, reports UNB.In a press release issued on Sunday and signed by party Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, it was said...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) on Sunday granted bail to former Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) mayor Selina Hayat Ivy in five separate cases, including one filed over the killing of garment worker Minarul Islam during the July-August 2024 mass uprising.The bench...
Law Adviser Asif Nazrul has reaffirmed that there is no reason to be concerned about the upcoming national election as the government is determined to hold the polls in the first half of February, reports UNB."There is no question of...
Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General and former MP Mia Golam Parwar has condemned the use of police force, sound grenades and water cannons against government primary school teachers demonstrating in the capital to press their three-point demand, including a salary upgrade to...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election polls will provide an opportunity to ensure justice for the July-August genocide and to boycott those who collaborated in the 1971 liberation war atrocities, report...
Posters of various political parties have mushroomed across Kadamtoli in Keraniganj, reflecting the mounting political fervour ahead of the national election scheduled for February next year. The photo was taken on Sunday. — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam
MADRID, Nov 9 (AP): The longest US government shutdown on record is doing more than grind activities to a halt at home; an ocean away in Europe, local workers at US military bases have started to feel the pain.Thousands of...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-10 00:00:00
Yields on treasury bills (T-bills), particularly those of longer tenures, rose on Sunday as banks appeared increasingly reluctant to invest their surplus liquidity in government securities ahead of the upcoming national elections.The cut-off yield on the 182-day T-bills climbed to...
Election Commission (EC) Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed Sunday said the final voter list will be published and the expatriate voter registration app will be launched on November 18, reports BSS."Earlier, we wanted to launch the Expatriate Voter Registration App on...
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