Businesses seek lower costs, easy LC process
Business leaders and entrepreneurs yesterday called for reducing the cost of doing business, simplifying regulatory procedures and improving law and order to create a more...
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Standard Islami Bank launches Bangla QR service
Promoting cashless transactions, Standard Islami Bank PLC has launched the Bangla QR service of Bangladesh Bank in its mobile banking app ‘DigiBanking’. Riad Mahmud Chowdhury,...
Rain, hill runoff trigger fresh flooding
Bangladesh’s flood situation deteriorated further on Friday as relentless monsoon rain and surging upstream flows from India inundated fresh areas across the southeast, northeast and...
PM orders aid for flood victims
The government has rolled out a 10-point response plan to tackle the worsening flood and landslide situation in the Chattogram region, opening more than a...
Army deployed in flood-hit areas
Army personnel were deployed to seven upazilas in Chattogram district to help contain the impact of dreadful floods and landslides in the district, said the...
Bangladesh ranks 2nd in global bad loans
Bangladesh has emerged as the world’s second-highest country in terms of loan default rates, according to a recent global financial analysis. The country now ranks...
Dutch, Chinese FDI tops in Bangladesh
Netherlands has become Bangladesh’s largest foreign investor in 2025 as foreign direct investment (FDI) or equity into Bangladesh from the country reached $544.61 million, or...
IMF to probe pay scale in new loan talks
Bangladesh’s plan to implement the Ninth National Pay Scale while meeting the conditions of a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending programme has emerged as...
From Delhi to the dock
Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told Reuters that she and senior colleagues from her Awami League party intend to return from exile in...
Fascist must return to be hanged Nahid Islam
Convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and Chief Whip of the Opposition Nahid Islam said that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina should return to...
Norway’s Haaland, England’s Kane lock-horn for WC semis today
Erling Haaland’s Norway will be out to chase more FIFA World Cup (WC) history when they face Harry Kane’s England at the FIFA World Cup...
US agreed to continue talks, but ceasefire is over
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran had asked to continue talks and the U.S. had agreed, ?but that the ceasefire was over....