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Gold jewellery sales in the UAE have picked up as prices have dropped after peaking in October, according to jewellers in Dubai. The precious metal jewellery sales took a hit as demand fell to a five-year low in the third quarter of 2025 due to high prices, according to the …

Production of local medicine raw materials, better known as active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), holds huge forex-earning potential but faces a host of headwinds from within, industry-insiders have said. They say the emerging sector has been facing lack of sufficient investment, including bank finance, at a time when it can spread …

Gold started the new year on a solid note after ending a volatile 2022 largely …

The import of essentials such as edible oil, chickpeas, dried peas and sugar fell in …

Oil edged lower on Wednesday after slumping in the previous session, weighed down by concerns …

Vegetable cultivation is gaining popularity in Pabna as growing profits have spurred local farmers to …

The dollar selling rate of the Bangladesh Bank went up to Tk 100 for the …

In the first five months of the fiscal year 2022–23, Bangladesh’s trade deficit decreased by …

The state coffers were robbed of Tk 258 crore for 26 counts of irregularities by …

Four more shariah-based banks have been found to have taken emergency funds, which are usually …

The Bangladesh Garments Workers Unity Council (BGWUC) yesterday demanded that the monthly minimum wage of …

The country’s female garment workers have a wage gap of around 51 per cent to …

Private sector credit growth rose to 13.97 per cent in November to near the central …

Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque urged the country’s agriculturists to develop a ‘smart agriculture’ …

People can now pay all fees of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) in the comfort …

Though the government has made mandatory the submission of tax returns to get more than …

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has urged the officials of …

Bangladesh’s readymade garment workers are receiving monthly wages on average 50 per cent lower than …

Bangladesh Bank yesterday rolled out an export facilitation fund of Tk 10,000 crore in order …

For the first time since December 2020, private sector borrowing from external sources declined as …

Bangladesh received $22.07 billion in remittance in 2022, almost unchanged from a year earlier, although …

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked businesspeople and industrialists in Bangladesh to at least pay …

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) may retain a VAT reduction of 5 per cent …

Idris Ali, a farmer of Kartikpasha village in Patuakhali’s Dumki upazila, has been cultivating mung …

The earning from merchandise export in December grew by 9.33 per cent year-on-year to $5.37 …

The year 2022 saw the economy recover and rise again. We showed our fortitude and …

The Bangladesh Bank decided to establish a research cell to examine the efficiency of the …

Full-fledged implementation of good agricultural practices (GAP) across the country could be possible within 2025, …

In 2022, AFD and the Economic Relations Division of the government of Bangladesh signed a …

More than three years after the release of a preliminary report on the Agriculture Census-2019, …

The National Board of Revenue today said it will accept tax returns from individual taxpayers …

Bangladesh Bank has instructed the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) that the institutions cannot change any …