Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort has announced a special culinary event titled 'The Local Culinary Heritage of Bangladesh', to celebrate the rich and diverse flavours of Bangladeshi cuisine. The event, which began on Wednesday will run until October 25, will...
Bengal Islami Life Insurance Limited held its Annual Conference-2025 at a local hotel in Cox's Bazar on Thursday. The event was presided over by the company's Chief Executive Officer MM Monirul Alam. More than 600 successful development officers from across...
Jamuna Bank signed an agreement with bKash to provide 24/7 cash management services for bKash distributors, agents and merchants. The signing ceremony took place on October 15 at Jamuna Bank's head office in Gulshan, Dhaka, with Mirza Elias Uddin Ahmed,...
With the objective of advancing the Cashless Bangladesh initiative and expanding digital transactions through Bangla QR, Mutual Trust Bank (MTB), as the lead bank, successfully organised a two-day seminar, campaign, and roadshow titled "Cashless Bangladesh" in Bogura. The programme brought...
Prime Bank has entered into a strategic partnership with Dusai Resort & Spa to provide exclusive benefits for its valued debit cardholders. A signing ceremony to mark the partnership was recently held at Prime Bank's corporate office in the capital....
Md. Mahbub Alam joined Southeast Bank as additional managing director (AMD) on Tuesday.Prior to joining Southeast Bank, he served as a deputy managing director at NCC Bank, according to a press statement.He started his career with the Bangladesh Institute of...
Md. Habibur Rahman has joined NCC Bank as deputy managing director (DMD) on Monday.Prior to this, he served as SEVP & head of Wholesale Banking Division-02 at Mutual Trust Bank (MTB), where he played a key role in expanding the...
The Association of Insurance Executives held a meeting on Monday to elect its new executive committee for a two-year term, effective from December 29, 2025.The meeting unanimously elected Md. Hafiz Ullah, independent director of Karnaphuli Insurance Company Limited and Meghna...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-16 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 15: Canadian High Commissioner (HC) to Bangladesh Ajit Singh, along with his delegation, paid a courtesy visit to Chittagong Port, the prime seaport of the country. He was accompanied by Debra Boyce, Senior Trade Commissioner, and Marcu Davies,...
Major General Mohammad Moazzem Hossain has joined the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) as its 18th Executive Chairman, reports BSS. He has joined the Chief Adviser's Office as Executive Chairman of BEPZA. He succeeded Major General Abul Kalam Mohammad...
Executive Chairman (State Minister) of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun said on Wednesday that the government is undertaking significant efforts to modernise its visa system by digitising fee payments and refining overall visa policy,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has noted that Bangladesh has achieved a significant progress in the development of local currency bond market, reports BSS.The multilateral lender in its Global Financial Stability Report released on Wednesday observed that confronted with higher...
FE Report | 2025-10-16 00:00:00
LankaBangla Finance has announced no dividend for 2024 after posting a 37.25 per cent year-on-year decline in profit to Tk 274.8 million.The announcement came as a major disappointment for shareholders, who had expected stronger results in 2024 compared with the...
BABUL BARMAN | 2025-10-16 00:00:00
Trading in Treasury bonds in the secondary market has surged by 64 per cent year-on-year to Tk 537 million in the July-September quarter, against the backdrop of declining yields of the debt securities.Bond prices are inversely related to interest rates,...
Banks are increasingly using modern technologies to ease customers' hardships. One such technology that has become popular in our country is the Cash Recycling Machine, or CRM. Through this machine, money can be deposited at booths 24/7. It is a...
Food is the most essential requirement for the sustenance of human life. From the earliest cavemen to advanced civilizations, food and agriculture have played an inevitable role in keeping humans alive and healthy. Every year on October 16, the world...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-10-16 00:00:00
At a time when students' final exams are just two months away, classes in non-government secondary educational institutions across the country are being badly hampered as thousands of MPO-listed teachers of these intuitions are protesting in Dhaka demanding a hike...
Once again a devastating fire originating from an unauthorised chemical warehouse has claimed at least 16 lives. This time the tragedy happened not in the infamous areas of old Dhaka but in Mirpur's Shialbari area. All 16 people died in...
QU Dongyu | 2025-10-16 00:00:00
This year's World Food Day marks 80 years since the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), whose mandate from the outset has been to ensure humanity's freedom from want.Today, around 8.2 per cent of...
NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters): The bankruptcies of automotive-related companies First Brands and Tricolor, along with potential losses at banks and investment funds, are raising new concerns about hidden risks in parts of the credit market - prompting investors to...
Babul Barman | 2025-10-15 12:00:00
Foreign investors have retreated from Bangladesh's equity market once again amid persistent economic challenges and fears of political friction during the electoral transition.Economic reform measures taken by the interim government after the political changeover had given rise to optimism about...
FE REPORT Police recovered a woman's body from a deep freezer in the capital's Kalabagan area on Monday night.The victim, identified as Taslima, was allegedly killed by her husband, Nazrul Islam, who has been on the run since the incident....
FE REPORT | 2025-10-15 00:00:00
The Advisers' Council on Government Purchase on Tuesday approved proposals to procure 0.13 million tonnes of fertiliser and 15,000 tonnes of sugar to meet the country's domestic demand.Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, currently in Washington, presided over the meeting virtually...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-15 00:00:00
The government has opened the door for private sector participation in running state-owned enterprises (SoEs) under the Ministry of Industries (MoI), as most of them have become loss-making ventures, MoI Secretary Md Obaidur Rahman said on Tuesday."There are between 200...
The Ministry of Religious Affairs has extended the deadline for Hajj registration until October 16, 2025, according to a press release issued by the Hajj-3 division on Tuesday, reports UNB.The notice was addressed to prospective pilgrims for Hajj 2026, Hajj...
Siddique Islam | 2025-10-15 00:00:00
The yield on five-year treasury bonds fell below the central bank's policy rate on Tuesday, as banks channelled surplus liquidity into government securities amid subdued private sector credit demand in the run-up to the national election.According to auction results, the...
FE Report | 2025-10-15 00:00:00
Handwashing may seem a small act in everyday life, but for many families in coastal Bangladesh it has become the line between illness and health, between despair and hope. In the western corner of Kalikapur Union, in West Dibuapur village...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-15 00:00:00
Banks will now get a special facility allowing them to maintain lower provisioning requirements for classified loans in agricultural, cottage, micro, and small enterprise sectors, according to the Bangladesh Bank.Banks are required to maintain a 1.0-percent provision against outstanding loans...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh's forthcoming elections will be a "real and landmark" event--the first genuinely fair polls in 16 years, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus reaffirms.He made the remarks during a high-level meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Rome...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-15 00:00:00
In a continued effort to stabilise the volatile foreign exchange market, Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Tuesday purchased another US$38 million from six commercial banks through auctions, reinforcing the taka's position against the dollar.With the latest intervention, the central bank's total...
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