DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith started placing the 44th national budget for Fiscal Year 2015-16 in the Parliament on Thursday afternoon.He started reading out the budget at 3: 35 pm, which will be the 9th as the finance minister.The size of the budget is likely to be Tk 2.97 lakh

DHAKA: Ahead of placement of budget for 2015-16 fiscal, investors witnessed mixed trend in early hours of trading of the country’s bourses on Thursday, the last trading day of the week.DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), shed over 0.74 points to stand at 4586.09 at

DHAKA: Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will place the national budget for 2015-16 financial year (FY16) at the National Parliament on Thursday.Size of this year’s budget will be around three lakh crore, higher than the past year’s budget of 2 lakh 50 thousand and 560

DHAKA: A two-day international conference on Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) sector will be held at Harvard University of the USA.The conference will begin on June 5.Harvard University South Asia Institute and Harvard University Center for the Environment and International Sustainable

DHAKA: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed categorically said that the largest readymade garments (RMG) town will be build up in Baushia in Munshiganj district.A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is scheduled to be signed between country’s largest RMG owners organization Bangladesh Garment

FROM MALAYSIA: Malaysia, a country with abundant natural beauty, is famous for medical treatment and education. The country has another attraction for many because of its moderate climate.Malaysia is not only developed in Asia but is recognized as a developed nation in the globe. It is

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses –Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – fell down in closing hours of trading on Tuesday, the third trading day of the week.DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 34.96 points only

DHAKA: India’s central bank lowered interest rates for a third time this year to spur private investment, and said it’d wait to assess monsoon rains before acting again.Governor Raghuram Rajan cut the benchmark repurchase rate to 7.25 percent from 7.5 percent, the Reserve Bank of

DHAKA: The newly appointed chief executive of loss-making Malaysia Airlines (MAS) said on Monday that the carrier is ‘technically bankrupt’, as he announced plans for a restructuring that will cut the company’s workforce by a third.‘We are technically bankrupt...the decline of

DHAKA: The cabinet on Monday gave its final approval to the draft of Bangladesh Economic Zones Act (Amendment), 2015 keeping a provision to set up economic zones in the country through G2G method.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting at the secretariat in city.This

DHAKA: Turnover at the Dhaka Stock Exchange, the main bourse of the country, has crossed Tk 10 billion on Monday, after eight months.Mutual funds and shares worth Tk 10023.39 million (10.02 billion) changed hands at the main bourse before close of trading on Monday. On Monday, the volume

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked fall again in its price indices on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), rose over 36.67 points only to stand at 4623.63 at the close of day’s trading.Trade deals stood at 182751 with volume

Dhaka: NOVOAIR increasing flight frequencies from 5 flights daily to 6 flights daily on Dhaka-Chittagong-Dhaka route from 08 June 2015.To create flexibility of domestic travel between the business capital Chittagong and the capital city Dhaka for the corporate, business and leisure

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- witnessed positive trend in early hour’s trading on Monday, the second trading day of the week. DSEX, the key index of the DSE, gained by 58.81 points or 1.28

DHAKA: Five Star Hotel Le Méridien, Dhaka, owned by Best Holdings Limited and managed by International hotel chain Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is going to start its operation from Monday with a promise for newer services. Le Méridien authorities are terming the opening

DHAKA: Investors witnessed gain in the benchmark indices of the country’s bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- on Sunday.DSEX, the key index of DSE, rose over 42.24 points to stand at 4586.95 at the close on the first trading day of the week.Trade

DHAKA: Budget session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin on Monday.The sixth session of this tenure of Awami League-led government is scheduled to begin at 5:30 pm, with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury in the chair.Prior to that, the duration and proceedings of the session would

DHAKA: Share price indices at the country’s both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – witnesses gain in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, rose over by 55.61 points or 1.22 per

DHAKA: Executive Director, Bangladesh Bank (BB) Subhankar saha on Saturday said Bangladesh was almost there to offer the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service in the country by October 8.The central bank of the country issued a press note in this regard.Subhankar saha, while