Day: January 18, 2023

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol received an honor guard welcome Sunday on a trip to the United Arab Emirates as he hopes to expand its military sales here.Yoon’s visit comes as South Korea conducts business deals worth billions of dollars and stat...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her deepest condolences at the loss of lives in a plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal.In a condolence letter to Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda", she said "I am deeply saddened to learn about t...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Sunday announced an accommodative cautionary monetary policy for the second half of the current fiscal year 2022-23 aimed at easing pressure on inflation and exchange rate.The central bank raised the policy interest rate by 0.25...

Mobile financial services provider Nagad has come up with a cashback or discount of up 22 percent on the purchase of goods from specific merchants at the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2023.Customers can enjoy the offer while making payments thr...

The annual business conference of National Bank Limited concluded on Sunday, held at Le Meridien in Dhaka.The Managing Director & CEO of NBL, Md. Mehmood Husain chaired the event. The managers of 221 branches of the ...

Islami Bank Bangladesh has donated Tk4 crore for the construction of houses for homeless people under the Ashrayan Project.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received the cheque from Professor Md Nazmul Hassan, chairman of Islami Bank, and Mohammed Monirul M...

The visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, led by its deputy managing director Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, on Sunday discussed with Bangladesh Bank officials the country’s economic challenges and the request for a $4.5 billion loan from th...

Four private telecom operators-Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi and Airtel owe an amount of Tk2,413 crore to the government which remains due as VAT on 2G spectrum fees and licence fees, said the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)....