Earnings from the country's merchandise exports in the first seven months of the current fiscal year (FY) stood at US$ 24.17 billion, marking a 13.39 per cent growth over the corresponding period of last fiscal, according to official data.The exports fetched $21.32 billion during the July-January period of FY 2017-18.The...
Read moreBank branches at land and seaports will remain open 15 hours a day to facilitate faster delivery of goods and simplify commercial activities.The decision was made at a meeting on Wednesday as part of the government's move for ease of doing business.Chaired by state minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury,...
Read moreCommerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Wednesday stressed the need for strengthening trade and economic relations with Greece, a European country."There is huge opportunity to enhance the trade and economic ties between the two countries," he told reporters, after a view-exchange meeting with Greece Ambassador to Bangladesh Panos Kalogeropoulos at the...
Read moreCHATTOGRAM, Feb 6: The Power Development Board (PDB) has installed over 0.45 million prepaid meters in Chattogram under the southern distribution zone in two projects till January last.Officials said the misuse of electricity has reduced while the revenue has increased alongside freeing the consumers under prepaid system from different harassments...
Read moreManaging Director and CEO of Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC S. Renganathan, Country Manager Varuna Kolamunna and Chief Operating Officer Najith Meewanage, among others, seen at the dais of the bank's Annual Staff Conference at a hotel in the city recently
Read moreDirectors, senior executives and best sales performers of Seven Rings Cement, a concern of Shun Shing Group International Ltd., posing for a photograph during the company's Annual Sales Conference 2019 at Srimangal in Sylhet recently. Shun Shing Group Chairman Mostafa Kamal Pasha inaugurated the conference
Read moreCommittee members of Bangladesh Employers' Federation, led by its President Kamran T Rahman, presenting a bouquet to Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq before a meeting with him at his Secretariat office in the capital on Wednesday
Read morePARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters): France's largest listed bank BNP Paribas lowered its profitability and revenue growth targets for 2020 after adverse financial markets hit revenues in the fourth quarter of 2018.BNP Paribas was now expecting a return on equity of 9.5 per cent in 2020, down from a prior target...
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