DHAKA: Bangladesh’s export earning has grown 0.83 percent year on year to $7.76-billion in the first quarter of the current 2015-2016 fiscal year.The data provided by Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) on Monday showed that, of the total earnings, income from readymade garment (RMG) items

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked gain in its price indices on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed rose over 48.02 points only to stand at 4776.15 at the close of day’s trading. Trade deals stood at 89677 with volume of

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- gained in early hours of trading on Monday.     DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, rose over 22.99 points or 0.48 per cent to 4751.12 after the first one-hour

DHAKA: A three-day ‘Foodpro Bangladesh’ fair, to be organized by Bangladesh Agro Food Process Association (BAPA), will begin in city on October 14.Industries minister Amir Hossain Amu will inaugurate the fair on processed food products as chief guest while state minister for foreign

DHAKA:  Investors witnessed significant fall in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses on Sunday, the first trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 53.23 points only to stand at 4728.12 at the close of day’s trading.Trade deals stood at

DHAKA: Thousands have protested in the German capital Berlin against a planned free-trade deal between the EU and US.Organizers said 250,000 people took part in the rally; police put the figure at around 100,000.Opponents of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) say it

DHAKA: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, announced on Friday (October 9) that it has received an approval from Bangladesh’s finance ministry for the first ever offshore Taka bond program.The $1 billion-equivalent bond program aims to strengthen capital markets and increase foreign

DHAKA:  Share price index at the country’s twin bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed negative trend in early hours of trading on Sunday.The DSE benchmark index, DSEX went down 60.04 points or 1.25 percent to reach 4721.32 at 11:34 am.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman has been named as the Best Central Bank Governor of the Year for the Asia Pacific region.    His name was declared as Governor of the Year in Asia Pacific countries a t seminar after meeting of IMF and World Bank in Lima of Peru

DHAKA: A three-day travel and tourism fair, to be organized by Tour Operators’ Association of Bangladesh (TOAB), will begin at Bashundhara International Convention Centre in city on November 19.Organizers of the upcoming Bangladesh Travel and Tourism Fair (BTTF) said at a press

DHAKA:  Investors witnessed fall in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses on Thursday, on the last trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed over 19.26 points only to stand at 4781.36 at the close of day’s trading.Trade deals stood at 89404

DHAKA: Country’s maiden banking fair will be organized on November 24.The five-day fair will remain open from 10:00am to 9:00pm till November 28 on Bangla Academy premises in city.All the 56 banks, operating in the country, are expected to take part in the fair.Bangladesh Bank (BB)

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked fall in its price indices on Wednesday, the fourth trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed over 32.70 points only to stand at 4800.62 at the close of day’s trading. Trade deals stood at 91382 with volume of

DHAKA: The International Labour Organization (ILO), Germany and Bangladesh government will collaborate in the development of an Employment Injury Insurance (EII) Scheme for Bangladesh.A Letter of Intent was signed at a ceremony held at the Westin Hotel in Dhaka on Tuesday (6 October) by

DHAKA: Speakers at the first ever Bangladesh-Spain multilateral partnership meeting on Tuesday opined that a new era of Spanish investment has just begun.On its first day of the two-day multilateral partnership meeting in Dhaka the speakers also raised the bar of expectations, a

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- gained in early hours of trading on Tuesday.     DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 17.508 points or 0.36 percent to 4849.105 after the first

DHAKA:  The biggest trade deal in decades was struck on Monday.The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) cuts trade tariffs and sets common standards in trade for 12 Pacific rim countries, including the US and Japan.It marks the end of five years of often bitter and tense negotiations.The

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked gain in its price indices on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 16.98 points only to stand at 4831.59 at the close of day’s trading. Trade deals stood at 81211 with volume of transactions

DHAKA: The first ever Bangladesh–Spain Multilateral Partnership Meeting will begin on Tuesday at the Le Meridien Hotel in Dhaka aiming to promote collaboration between companies of two countries. The two-day long Multilateral Partnership Meeting offers companies of Bangladesh the

DHAKA: The World Bank (WB) has cut its growth forecast for the Asia Pacific region for this year and next, because of the risks posed from a sharp slowdown in China and raising US interest rates.The bank now expects growth in developing East Asia and the Pacific to be 6.5% this year and