Janata Bank PLC officially launched commercial operations at its newly relocated Abu Dhabi branch and the office of its Chief Executive Officer in the United Arab Emirates on Monday. Bangladesh's Ambassador to the UAE Tareq Ahmed along with Janata Bank...
Trust Bank PLC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Pension Authority (NPA) to work as banking service provider and collect monthly installments under the Universal Pension Scheme. Md Khairuzzaman Mozumder, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance,...
Modhumoti Bank PLC donated Tk 500,000 to Mirpur Bangla School and College under the bank's CSR programme on Tuesday for the establishment of Computer and Science Laboratory and modernisation of sanitation. Md. Shafiul Azam, Managing Director & CEO of Modhumoti...
Pubali Bank gifted two microbuses to Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), as part of the bank's corporate social responsibility. Mohammad Ali, managing director & CEO of Pubali Bank, as the chief guest of the programme, handed over the keys to Professor...
MTB Foundation, in partnership with Bangladesh Thalassaemia Hospital, recently observed 'World Thalassaemia Day 2025'. An event, 'Blood Donation Program and Awareness Session', was organised by MTB Foundation at the corporate head office of Mutual Trust Bank (MTB). The blood donated...
The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia hosted a Batik Workshop and Batik Fashion Show on the embassy premises in Dhaka on Monday. The event was organised in collaboration with Batik House Indonesia (BHI), represented by Venny Afwany Alamsyah, a...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved a new US$70 million project to help rural communities in flood-prone and drought-prone regions in Bangladesh adapt to environmental shocks and improve their livelihoods. The Climate Resilient Agriculture and Livelihood Enhancement...
Syed Abdul Momen, additional managing director and head of SME Banking at BRAC Bank, has been awarded 'SME Banker of the Year - Bronze' at the Qorus SME Banking Awards 2025.Held at the Qorus Reinvent Forum in Vienna, Austria, the...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00
Local electronic giant Walton Hi-Tech Industries has appointed a partner organisation in Singapore to increase its market access.Walton seems to have considered taking advantage of the market accessibility of the new partner, Flair M&E Pte Ltd in Singapore as it...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00
The securities regulator has revoked the TREC licence of Shah Mohammad Sagir & Co over the embezzlement of clients' funds worth around Tk 137 million six years ago.Trading at the brokerage firm was suspended in September 2019 to protect investors...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-21 00:00:00
The capital market taskforce on Monday submitted final reports - on initial public offering (IPO) and mutual funds -- to the securities regulator without major changes in the draft reports.The only notable change in the final report on IPO rules...
Mohammad Abu Yusuf | 2025-05-21 00:00:00
In the Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act 2012 of Bangladesh, ‘supply of services’ means not a supply of good, money, or immoveable property, which, without prejudice to the generality, shall include the following: (a) a grant, assignment, termination,...
For the past ten months, since the formation of the interim government, citizens have faced a nearly daily ordeal of traffic paralysis. While organisers claim to schedule such events on weekends to limit disruption, the reality tells a different story....
Dhaka has emerged as one of the South Asia's most expensive cities, posing serious financial challenges for newly married couples. With rising inflation, soaring rents, and modest entry-level salaries, managing household expenses on a single income has become nearly impossible....
Wasi Ahmed | 2025-05-21 00:00:00
The presence of arsenic in groundwater across almost all regions of Bangladesh is not a recent discovery. In fact, it has been more than two and a half decades since the alarming levels of arsenic contamination were first detected in...
Rising unemployment means the economy concerned is not doing well. Then, unemployment is not just about a figure. The individuals or families whose members are without work know how it hurts. From that point of view, the recently published report...
Zaidi Sattar | 2025-05-21 00:00:00
Our hope is that the forthcoming FY2026 Budget could be a crucial reform budget that could change the direction of the economy, like the budget of FY1992 did. Addressing the economy’s persistent and deep-rooted protectionism will have to be one...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 12:00:00
International Labour Organisation (ILO) has suggested inclusive labour reforms and effectiveness of institutions for protecting workers' rights in all sectors of Bangladesh.For doing so, there is a need for strengthening capacities of inspectorate, courts and grievance authority to help enforce...
KHARTOUM, May 19 (AFP): Sudan's army chief and de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan appointed on Monday former UN official Kamil Idris as the country's new prime minister, more than two years into a brutal war.Idris, a career diplomat and...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers with temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions; at a few places over Rajshahi and Dhaka divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Barishal...
Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Major General Md Mahbub-ul Alam, along with others, posed with the awardees at the university's annual prize giving ceremony on its campus in the capital on Monday.
The government has transferred 17 Superintendents of Police (SPs), with 10 of them receiving the current charge of Additional Deputy Inspector General (Addl DIG), according to two gazette notifications issued by the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-05-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 19: The Chittagong Custom House (CCH) collected a total of Tk 628.18 billion in taxes in the first ten months of fiscal year (FY) 2024-25.CCH sources said a drop in imports of some goods, as well as the...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Bangladesh will assist the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) in meaningful youth engagement and empowering young people and strengthening youth-centered policies.The MoYS and UNFPA Bangladesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this...
Civil Aviation and Tourism Advisor Sheikh Bashir Uddin handing over a crest to the captain, first officer and a cabin crew member of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight - at the Balaka Bhaban in the capital on Monday - for...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00
Supporters of BNP leader Ishraque Hossain continued their sit-in in front of Nagar Bhaban in the capital for the fifth consecutive day on Monday, demanding that he be sworn in as mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).They under the...
FE REPORT | 2025-05-20 00:00:00
Over 13 per cent of the bridges in six zones across the country are in different stages of vulnerability, with over 8.0 requiring immediate maintenance.The Roads and Highways Department (RHD), in its first round of inspection of 15,437 bridges and...
NARAYANGANJ, May 19 UNB): Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former local MP Shamim Osman, former Narayanganj city mayor Dr Selina Hayat Ivy, and 207 others were sued in a case over the...
A Dhaka court has showed Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq, Qamrul Islam and Dr Dipu Moni arrested in two separate cases lodged over the killings which took place during the July-August mass uprising, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Mazharul Islam...
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke met leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami's women's wing and discussed the issues of mutual interest, reports UNB.They had an insightful discussion about their community engagement and the policy issues that matter most to them...
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