Sports Reporter : Bangladesh ‘A’ Cricket team beat Hong Kong (HK) by five wickets in their first Group-A match of...
Day: October 19, 2024
Kusal Mendis hit an unbeaten 68 which powered Sri Lanka to win first T20 International (T20I) series over the West Indies with a thumping nine-wicket victory in the third and final T20I game in Dambulla on Thursday. Sri Lanka chased down their 163-run target with 12 balls to spare as a sell-out home crowd in Dambulla erupted. “Happy to get the team over the line,” said Mendis who hit five fours and three sixes. “Not the easiest pitch to bat...
Business Report : Bangladesh Bank (BB) has simplified foreign exchange rules through three separate circulars, allowing banks to remit different types of payments abroad without its approval. The rules will apply to banks making payments to accounts that handle lease rentals by airlines incorporated in Bangladesh. It will also apply to remittances for service charges to the bank accounts of cloud services, IT infrastructure and remote software applications. Banks can also make payments on behalf of service arrangers routing respective...
Business Report : Prime Bank PLC has recently signed a new payroll agreement with Mart Promoters at the latter’s office...
AFP : China posted its slowest growth in a year and a half on Friday, as Beijing struggles to steady an economy shaken by sluggish spending and persistent property sector woes. Officials have in recent weeks unveiled a string of measures to reignite the world’s number-two economy, with an eye to achieving five percent annual growth. But after a blistering market rally fuelled by hopes for a long-awaited “bazooka stimulus”, optimism has tapered as authorities refrained from providing a specific...
Business Report : Bangladesh Bank on Thursday removed NCC Bank Chairman M Abul Bashar and Director Md Abdul Awal after...
Business Report : Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture Dr Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian has said the use of jute will be increased by improving the quality of jute fibre and producing multipurpose jute products. “For this purpose, the related research activities need to be increased,” he said while addressing an annual agricultural research review workshop at the conference room of Bangladesh Jute Research Institute (BJRI)’s head office at Manik Mia Avenue in the capital on Thursday as the chief...
Business Report : The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has rejected National Credit and Commerce (NCC) Bank’s application seeking...
Business Report : Administrator of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) Md Hafizur Rahman on Thursday urged the business community to make logical profit for keeping the country’s commodity market. “Due to natural calamities including floods, the price of daily commodities had increased slightly. But now, the prices have increased abnormally which is uncomfortable for mass people,” he said while exchanging views with retailers and wholesalers of daily commodities at FBCCI Motijheel office in the city,...
Business Report : Although mobile financial services and agent banking work as vital instruments in terms of financial inclusion, the...