Thursday, 28 January, 2021
The Railway Ministry has sought an additional Tk 41.40 billion for 2019-20 fiscal year to run repairing work for damaged railway tracks and meet administrative expenses, official sources said. The ministry…
GE Power inks 5-yr maintenance agreement with BPDB
GE Power has signed fiver-year contract with the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) to provide…
Govt creates scope of using banks by people: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government has created a scope of using banks by the people…
Six cos recommend dividends
The board of directors of six companies listed on the stock markets have recommended 37 percent cash…
Pubali Bank
celebrates 60th
founding anniv
Pubali Bank Limited celebrated its 60th founding anniversary at a hotel in the city recently. Md. Ashadul…
SIBL launches
‘Service Month’
campaign
Social Islami Bank Limited launched a special campaign from November 3 to November 30 in order to celebrate…
Motin made MD of BTCL
Dr Md Rafiqul Motin has been promoted to Managing Director (MD) of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company…
Md Shirin reappointed
as MD of DBBL
Abul Kashem Md Shirin reappointed as the Managing Director and CEO of Dutch-Bangla Bank for next 3 years…
Four-day 5th BIGTEX
expo begins Nov 7
A four-day “5th Bangladesh International Garment and Textile Industry Exposition (BIGTEX ) Expo”…
News of the day
Indian companies are witnessing a sharp spike in demand for their dollar bond offerings thus giving…
India’s economy to grow
6.6pc in 2020-24: OECD
NEW DELHI: India’s GDP is likely to grow at 6 .6 per cent in 2020-24 lower than its 2013-17 average…
Aramco announces stock
market debut
DHAHRAN: Saudi Aramco announced Sunday its long-awaited stock market debut in what could be the world’s…
China gets into blockchain
race with US
BEIJING: China has launched an ambitious effort to challenge the US dominance in blockchain technology,…
Germany renews push for
free trade pact with India
NEW DELHI: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday there was a need for a fresh attempt to…
Berkshire tops profit forecasts
despite trade drag, record cash
NEW YORK: Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Saturday said its quarterly operating profit rose more than analysts…
Fosun buys Thomas Cook brand for $14mn
BEIJING: Chinese conglomerate Fosun has snapped up the Thomas Cook brand for £11 million (US$14.2…
India to improve
tax regime to
attract overseas
investment
NEW DELHI: India is committed to further improving its people-friendly tax regime, Prime Minister Narendra…
Clean force offers
discount on
four services
Clean force announced an offer on four services like rooftop tank, lower tank, pipe line of house and…
China’s sci-fi
industry exceeds
$4.3bn in H1
SHENZHEN: The output value of China’s sci-fi industry in the first half of this year exceeded…
News of the day
Saudi Aramco’s chairman Yasser al-Rumayyan said on Sunday the state oil giant would continue to…
World’s biggest trade deal
to be delayed to 2020
BANGKOK: The signing of the world’s largest trade pact will likely be kicked back to 2020, according…
Oil rises nearly 4pc on US-China trade hopes
NEW YORK: Oil prices rose nearly 4 per cent on Friday on signs of progress in US-China trade talks and…
S&P 500, Nasdaq end
at records after
strong US jobs data
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks surged to fresh records on Friday following good US jobs data and positive…
China’s CPI
expected to
edge up
in October
BEIJING: China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, was forecasted a faster…
Indonesia reviewing
terms of EU
trade deal
NUSA DUA: Indonesia’s vice-foreign minister Mahendra Siregar said Jakarta is reviewing a draft…
Bizli Cables
holds dealers’
confce
Bizli Cables, cable brand of RFL Group, organised its dealers’ conference at International Convention…
BKB holds branch managers’ confce
A day-long conference of Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) for the divisional and regional audit officers,…
CVC Finance
inks deal
with ‘Nagad’
‘Nagad’, the digital financial service of Bangladesh Postal Division and CVC Finance Limited…
ONE Bank, Beximco
Communications
ink deal
ONE Bank Limited recently signed a partnership agreement with Beximco Communi-cations Limited. Under…
Stocks go up
Country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), ended on Sunday a bit higher following the…
China’s used car sales rise in Sept
BEIJING: China's used car sales climbed 7.4 percent in September from a year earlier, according…
Over 100 cos sign up for
China’s 3rd import expo
SHANGHAI: A total of 115 companies from all over the globe have signed up for the third China International…
China recycles more scrapped motor vehicles in Sept
BEIJING: China recovered about 195,000 motor vehicles in September, up 8.1 percent from a year earlier,…
British stocks up 0.75pc
LONDON: British stocks rose on Friday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 Index up by 0.75 percent, or 54.04…
Taka down against pound, euro
The local currency Taka dropped against the UK pound and the Euro and it remained unchanged against…
Commodity at a glance
Prices of most essential commodities remained unchanged in the city’s kitchen markets on Sunday.…
Corporate Corner
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal briefs reporters after a meeting with executive directors of World…
Banks donate blankets to PM’s Relief Fund
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is seen with Al-Arafah Islami Bank Chairman Abdus Samad Labu, directors…