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A move is underway to enlist chartered energy auditors for large industries and commercial structures rated to be designated consumers (DS) under a certain rule by early next year.

The country’s external debt payment reached a new high of nearly $500 million in the first quarter (Q1) of this fiscal year. The quarterly debt-servicing data released by the finance division showed the repayment rose by over 24 per cent to US$ 495.2 million over the year-earlier period.

Despite enormous potential of tourism in Bangladesh, the sector is facing different challenges like inadequate infrastructure, high cost of doing business and lack of branding, according to a study.

The crisis-hit shrimp industry, which has seen a gradual fall in exports over the last five years, is now looking for a breakthrough by introducing a new variety called vannamei or white shrimp.

Farmers and agriculturists expect production of more than 9.67 lakh tonnes of onion from 79,985 hectares of land in the region including its vast Barind tract during the current rabi season.

After insisting for 15 years that the superjumbo is the future, Emirates airline has been forced by the demise of the A380 to embrace smaller wide-body jets, resulting in a flurry of maneuvers between planemakers at this week’s Dubai Airshow.

The Appellate Division on Sunday ordered Grameenphone to pay in three months Tk 2,000 crore out of Tk 12,579.95 crore claimed by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission as dues.

Life insurance companies operating in the country must invest assets equal to their liabilities in the nine priority sectors determined by the government, according to the new regulations of Bangladesh Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority.

Dhaka stocks dropped on Sunday as share prices of Grameenphone plunged following a Supreme Court order that asked the mobile operator to pay telecom regulator Tk 2,000 crore out of Tk 12,579.95 crore in ‘disputed’ audit claim in three months.

The prices of onion jumped up to Tk 25 per kg in the capital’s wholesale markets on Sunday on supply crunch of the bulb, traders said. Onions being flown in from Pakistan, China, Egypt and Myanmar are too scant to meet the local demand, they said. But the government is …