DHAKA: Country's stock market marked gain in its price indices on Wednesday, the fourth trading day of the week. DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 20.70 points only to stand at 4527.41 at the close of day’s trading. Trade deals stood at 130565 with volume of

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnessed gain in early hours of trading on Wednesday, the fourth trading day of the week. DSEX, the Broad Index of the DSE, rose over by 7.23 points or 0.16

DHAKA: Visiting Dutch foreign trade and development cooperation minister Lilianne Ploumen opened a seminar on ‘Sustainable Wet Processing’, as part of the Bangladesh Water PaCT: Partnership for Cleaner Textile program, in city on Tuesday.Bangladesh garment Manufacturers and Exporters

DHAKA: Investors witnessed gain in the benchmark indices of the country’s bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week.DSEX, the Broad Index of DSE, rose over 29.16 points to stand at 4506.72 at the closing

DHAKA: Swiss multinational food company Nestle revealed that it will destroy more than £32 million ($50 million) worth of its popular Maggi noodles in India after the country's food safety regulator said the products were ‘unsafe and hazardous.”Nestle, which claims 80% of the Indian

DHAKA: Power Division has permitted markets and shopping malls to remain open till 10:00pm during Ramadan.The decision came from a meeting held with business leaders at Secretariat on Tuesday.State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid made the disclosure after the meeting.Announcing that there

DHAKA: Honda Motor Co said it will recall 1.39 million Accord and Civic model sedans with potentially faulty front passenger-side air bags made by Japan’s Takata Corp.This will bring to about 2.3 million the number of Accord and Civic sedans with Takata’s front passenger-side air bags

DHAKA: China had four million millionaire households in 2014, the second-highest in the world after the United States, as the country’s stock market boom boosted private wealth.An independent survey showed Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.One million new millionaires were created in

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank (BB) has joined social media to disseminate the information of the central bank.Three accounts have been introduced in Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.BB governor Atiur Rahman inaugurated the program under the title of ‘Bangladesh Bank Social Media Communication

DHAKA: Dr Tapan Kanti Sarkar (CTO, NCC Bank Ltd) has been re-elected as president of CTO Forum Bangladesh and Dr Ijazul Haque (Head of IT, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC) as general secretary for 2015-2017 session of the organization.The members of the organization elected 13 members

DHAKA: Among the local shariah-based commercial institutions, Al-Arafah Isalmi Bank has introduced ‘Islamic Card’ (La Riba Master Card), first of its kind in the country.Asia Pacific University vice-chancellor Professor Dr Jamilur Reza Choudhury inaugurated the cards, comprising

DHAKA: Investors witnessed gain in the benchmark indices of the country’s bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the Broad Index of DSE, rose over 24.19 points to stand at 4477.55 at the close of

DHAKA: The World Bank (WB) Dhaka office chief economist Zahid Hussain termed the Bangladesh’s proposed national budget 2015-16 ‘massive and conventional’.He made the comment on the proposed budget at a press conference at city’s Agargaon area on Monday morning.According to Zahid,

DHAKA: The latest round of talks between Greek and EU officials in Brussels has failed to reach an agreement.A European Commission spokesman said while progress was made on Sunday, ‘significant gaps’ remained.Europe wants Greece to make spending cuts worth €2bn, to secure a deal

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses--Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stocks Exchange (CSE) -- is underway showing gain in share-price indices on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the Broad Index of DSE, rose over 8.32 points to stand at 4461.69 after the

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked fall in its price indices on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 61.76 points only to stand at 4453.36 at the close of day’s trading. Trade deals stood at 94634 with volume of

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- slipped in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. DSEX, the Broad Index of the DSE, went down by 49.65 points or 1.09 per cent to

DHAKA: Civil society think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) expressed their concern saying that the proposed national budget will face a revenue deficit of Tk 30,000-crore.The organization’s executive director Dr Mostafizur Rahman made the concern in his keynote paper at a

DHAKA: The third Zakat Fair 2015 kicked off in Dhaka on Friday with the theme ‘making a difference with Zakat’. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the fair as the chief guest at National Shooting Federation Complex in Gulshan-1 in the morning.Center for Zakat Management,

BRAHMANBARIA: Bangladesh and India on Thursday opened a forth weekly border market or “haat”, this time on the frontier of Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district along the boundary line with India’s Tripura state.Earlier on June 6, Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina and her India