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Hit hard by Covid-19 fallout, businesses in the tourism sector in the beach town of Cox’s Bazar look for a gradual comeback after Eid-ul-Azha eyeing the next winter as an opportunity to stay afloat by hosting tourists from home and abroad in the hub of the country’s tourism industry.

A deluge of missed calls greeted me as I glanced over my phone in late afternoon on Saturday. They were all from the same unknown number.

The monthly inflow of remittance has hit an all-time high in July ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, one of the largest religious festivals of the Muslims, as the expatriates sent $1.96 billion in remittance in the first 23 days of the month, according to Bangladesh Bank data.

Dubai has set a target of 3D printing 25% of all buildings by 2030

For the first year, the charge will be 1% of the loans that would be guaranteed by the central bank

Gold hit a record high Monday as investors rushed into the safe-haven on concerns about China-US tensions, a spike in virus infections around the world and a lack of progress on a new stimulus bill in Washington.

Like previous day, stocks today witnessed positive trends in Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges as optimistic investors showed their appetite following the minimum shareholding ultimatum by the stock market regulator.

Speakers at a dialogue have identified policy uncertainty and unpredictability as the key impediment to attracting increased foreign direct investments in the country.

The government should provide credit guarantee to banks for sharing the risk of disbursing loans to all cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (CMSMEs) under the stimulus package, said a senior banker on Saturday evening.

Back in March, when the country was gripped by the fear of the novel coronavirus, people were streaming to banks to take out money from their accounts, in what was viewed as a puzzling occurrence.