DHAKA: Ahead of city corporation elections, the central bank directed all scheduled banks to keep their branches in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) areas open on Friday (March 27) and Saturday (March 28), two

DHAKA: Ziauddin Adil, CEO of Top of Mind, the country’s leading Media Agency has been selected to be a member of the final jury body for the “Festival of Media Asia Pacific 2015.” The “Festival of Media” is the largest gathering of marketers and media professionals in the Asia

DHAKA: National Revenue Board (NRB) has summoned Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus for his unpaid taxes of over Tk 13-crore.The Nobel Laureate has been asked to meet the tax commissioner in city at 11:00am on March 29.A national daily on Sunday published a report saying that a letter was

DHAKA: Experts say it will take maximum 2.5 year time to recover the financial losses the country incurred due to violence during the last 75 days of hartal and blockade.As per the affected traders’ claim, the country is counting losses about Tk 2,277-crore a day on an average totaling

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked slight fall in its price indices on Monday.DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 26.65 points only to stand at 4506.55 at the close on the second trading day of the week.Trade deals stood at 78034 with volume of transactions at Tk

DHAKA: German airline Lufthansa said Sunday that its services were more or less back to normal after a four-day walkout by pilots, but unions warned of further disruptions, possibly over the Easter holidays.A Lufthansa spokesman said short and medium haul flights were back to normal on

DHAKA: Key share price indices in the country’s both bourses - Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) - began the week in positive as prices of most of their issues increased Sunday.Trading at both DSE and CSE began on positive trend this morning and ended the

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses--Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)--is underway showing gain in share-price indices on Sunday.DSEX, the key index of DSE, rose over 45.30 points to stand at 4513.32 at 12:04 pm.Trade deals stood at 33,036 with

DHAKA: Thailand expressed keen interest for a more active and robust engagement with Bangladesh towards strengthening diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries.   During a call by Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Saida Muna Tasneem on Thursday afternoon at the Thai

DHAKA: The World Bank’s Board of Directors Wednesday approved $200 million in interest-free credit to improve livelihoods of approximately 5 million poor people in the rural areas of Bangladesh. The Nuton Jibon Livelihood Improvement Project will benefit the rural poor in the

DHAKA: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed urged foreign buyers to pay fair price for Readymade Garments made in Bangladesh. He said, “Money needed for attaining anything. Factor-investment nothing is possible without money. But we are not getting fair prices from foreign buyers for

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked gain in its price indices on Thursday.DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 25.20 points only to stand at 4468.02 at the close on the last trading day of the week.Trade deals stood at 52143 with volume of transactions at Tk 1666.14

DHAKA:  Investors witnessed fall in benchmark indices of the country’s bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) --on Monday.DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, shed over 28.72 points only to stand at 4815.63 at the close on the second trading day of the

DHAKA: Shares in mainland China jumped on Monday despite the world's second largest economy reporting weak export data over the weekend.The country's exports fell by 8.3% in July, far worse than expected and the producer price index was down 5.4% from a year earlierHowever, the benchmark

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses-- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) --  is underway with downward trend of share-price indices on Monday.DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 2.29 points or 0.04 per cent to 4842.06 after the first one

DHAKA: Google has just posted its financial reports for Q2 2015. The company saw tremendous growth in revenue, net income and paid advertisement clicks, which have all remained strong despite being faced with severe foreign currency fluctuations.Google earned a total of $17.7 billion in

DHAKA: Country's stock market marked fall in its price indices on Monday, the second trading day of the week.DSEX, the Broad Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed over 9.28 points only to stand at 4526.71 at the close of day’s trading.  Trade deals stood at 103149 with volume of

DHAKA: A total of 284 Members of Parliament (MPs) will get Tk 5,680-crore to materialize their election manifesto.The allocation will come under the project of rural infrastructural development (2nd phase).Panning Commission sources said that the project will be placed at Executive

DHAKA: The cabinet gave its final nod to the draft of Cox’s Bazar Development Authority Bill-2015.Besides, National Information and Communication Technology Regulations Bill-2015 has also been approved in the cabinet meeting.The approval came at a weekly cabinet meeting held at Jatiya

DHAKA: Indian and Chinese firms signed 21 agreements which officials said were worth a total of more than US$22 billion in Shanghai on Saturday, witnessed by visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.‘Let us work together in mutual interests,’ Modi told executives from 200 Chinese and