Sunday, 21 Sep, 2025

Business

Stocks witnessing gain

DHAKA: Trading on the country’s two bourses is underway showing gain in share-price indices on Monday.DSEX, the prime index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, rose over 81 points to stand at 4851 at 1:15 pm.Trade deals stood at 46677 with transaction at Tk 2030 million.Of the issues traded, 226

Malaysia secured TK24,974cr worth of Bangladesh projects

DHAKA: After India, Malaysian infrastructure companies are drilling their way into Bangladesh, yet another upcoming South Asian market, with almost TK24,974 crore (RM11 billion) worth of projects secured to date.Malaysia’s Special Envoy for Infrastructure to India and South Asia

Bourses witness ups and downs

DHAKA: Key share price indexes at both Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed a mixed trend on Sunday, the first day of trading after two-day weekend.Sources told banglanews that though, the both bourses were witnessing positive trends in the early

Clean-up operation at St’ Martin seashore

DHAKA: Coca-Cola Bangladesh, Ocean Conservancy and Kewkradong volunteers jointly ran a cleaning operation at St. Martin’s seashore on Friday with the slogan “Pick it up, Clean it up, Sea change. The clean-up was organized to celebrate the International Coastal Clean Up Day, said

Regent Airways to invest Tk 800cr

CHITAGONG: Country’s leading private airlines operator Regent Airways (RA) announced an investment of a total of Tk 800 crore to increase its operation in the aviation sector.Managing Director (MD) of the airlines Mashruf Habib made the announcement at a press conference at a

Unilever CEO Polman visits Bangladesh

DHAKA: Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever Plc came to Bangladesh in a two-day visit from November 26 as part of his regular tour to key Unilever markets across the world.This is his second visit to Bangladesh and in many ways reflects Unilever’s strong business commitment to the country,

Bourses witness ups and downs

DHAKA: Key share price indexes at both Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed a mixed trend on Thursday, the last day of trading in week.Though, the both bourses were witnessing positive trends in the early hours of trading but later the price index

GIZ-IFC on solar lanterns promotion in Bangladesh

DHAKA: German Development Cooperation (GIZ) recently signed a cooperation agreement with International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group for developing the quality assured solar lantern market in Bangladesh. Both the agencies will work under the Lighting Asia Bangladesh

ADB keen to increase programs: Mutith

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said Asian Development Bank (ADB) showed keen interest to increase their development programs in Bangladesh.Muhith was talking to journalists after a meeting with ADB vice-president Wencai Zhang at his secretariat office.The minister said

Stocks witness fall Wednesday

DHAKA: The prices of key share at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed negative trend from the beginning of Wednesday’s trading.DSEX, the prime index of country’s major bourse – Dhaka Stock Exchange – went down to 4,758.00 points at 2:35pm

Moinul wins ‘Global Marketing Leader’ award

DHAKA: Moinul Islam Moin, Head of Marketing PRAN (Confectionery) Ltd, won the ‘Global Marketing Leader’ award from World Global Marketing Congress held at Mumbai’s Hotel Taj Lands End this month.  Some 1200 Marketing Leaders from about 100 countries attended the summit where 100

Bikroy.com starts to monetize on its website

DHAKA: Bikroy.com, the largest market place in Bangladesh, launched two paid ad promotional services, named Top Ad for seven days and Daily Bump Up for seven days, said a press release.Apart from this, the basic service of posting free ads remain the same, the site now also offers

Banks remains open Saturday

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank (BB) has issued an order to all the government and private banks to keep their main braches at divisional and district towns open on Saturday (November 29).Deputy General Manager of Department of Off-Site Supervision Division of the central bank Ashim Kumar

Stocks witness fall Monday

DHAKA: The prices of key share at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed negative trend from the very beginning of Monday’s trading maintaining continuity with Sunday’s fall.DSEX, the prime index of country’s major bourse – Dhaka Stock Exchange

BEXIMCO Farma gets Health Canada approval

DHAKA: Country’s one of the largest medicine exporters BEXIMCO Pharmaceutical Limited has gained approval from Canada’s drug regulatory authorities called Health Canada.BEXIMCO Farma is the only local medicine manufacturer that has achieved the recognition for following Current

Bangladesh Bank awards 24 expats

DHAKA: Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country, on Sunday awarded twenty four Bangladeshi expatriates for playing a vital role in country’s economy.Twenty of them were awarded for sending the highest amount of remittance and four others for the highest level of bond

RFL ‘Best Buy’ inaugurates in Sirajganj, Tangail

DHAKA: Two RFL ‘Best Buy’ outlets have been inaugurated in Sirajganj and Tangail districts recently, said a press release.RN Paul, Director of RFL inaugurated two outlets where M Gias Uddin Biswas, AGM of RFL Best Buy, Mehedi Hasan, Assistant Brand Manager of Best Buy, Mizanur

7-day show to increase cement export in India

FROM NATIONAL PARLIAMENT: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said that a seven-day exposition will be held to increase the export of cement in India. The minister disclosed the matter while answering to a question at the 4th session of the 10th National Parliament on Thursday. He said that

Titan showroom at Bashundhara City

DHAKA: Titan, world class brand watch, launched its exclusive showroom ‘World of Titan’ at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in the city on Sunday. Eminent actress and theatre personality Bipasha Hayat inaugurated the showroom.  Kallol Group of Companies Managing Director Ghulam

Bourses witness ups and downs

DHAKA: Key share price indexes at both Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed a mixed trend on Thursday. Though, the both bourses were witnessing positive trend in the early hours of trading but later the price index of DSE and CSE went down. However,