Mongla: A foreign ship carrying 470 reconditioned vehicles from Japan docked at Mongla Port on Monday noon. The ship, M.V. Viking Drive, bearing the flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, arrived at jetty no. 9 around 12 noon. The 164-metre-lon…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Ahsan H Mansur today announced that the government will ensure the safety of depositors’ money by taking over banks before merging weaker banks into stronger ones. “Depositors have no reason to worry as they will b…
Dhaka: The country’s light engineering sector has the potential to tap into the vast global market, with the possibility of exporting up to $100 billion, provided there is adequate policy support, investment, and infrastructural development. Md. Abdur…
Dhaka: The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has taken a decision to set the yearly maintenance fees of the beneficiary owners’ (BOs) accounts at Tk 150. The decision was made during a meeting held today, as announced in a BSEC pres…
Dhaka: Abdelouahab Saidani, Ambassador of Algeria to Bangladesh, met with Commerce Adviser Sk. Bashir Uddin at the Bangladesh Secretariat today. During their meeting, the two officials explored avenues for enhancing bilateral relations and boosting tr…
Dhaka: Partners of the Bangladesh Preparedness Partnership (BPP) at a bi-monthly coordination meeting have expressed their keenness to work collaboratively to build a stronger, safer Bangladesh through disaster management and response. The meeting was…
Dhaka: A daylong ‘Bangladesh-China Conference on Investment and Trade’ is scheduled to take place on June 1 at “Biniyog Bhaban” (Investment Building) in Dhaka. The event is being organized jointly by the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and …
Dhaka: The New Development Bank (NDB), a multilateral development bank, has expressed commitment to work closely with Bangladesh and finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects that support its national development objectives and commi…
Dhaka: Ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, the government today fixed the prices of salt-applied rawhides of cows at Tk 60 to Tk 65 per square foot in the city and Tk 55 to Tk 60 per square foot outside the capital. The price of goat hides was set at Tk 22…