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The government’s borrowing from the banking sector dropped by Tk 13,627 crore in the July-April period of the current fiscal year 2020-21 amid heavy sales of national savings certificates and low spending on the implementation of the annual development programme amid the COVID outbreak.

The Chittagong Port Authority has recommended doubling the number of private inland container depots for smooth handling of export and import goods.

With Eid less than a week away, smiles have returned to the face of retailers after sales picked up as customers thronged shopping centres, defying the risk of contracting the deadly coronavirus.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today said that the slow growth trend in the export earnings due to the COVID-19 pandemic would go away in the post pandemic era.

Experts today in a webinar laid emphasis on ensuring healthy competition in the country’s mobile financial service (MFS) industry instead of monopoly business for the greater benefit of both the users and the operators.

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun today said that there is no alternative to setting up a modern industrial park to survive in the industrial and production competition with the big countries of the world at this time of the fourth industrial revolution.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pointed out some key areas where customs crucially need to develop its capacities for trade facilitation.

Speakers at a virtual discussion on Saturday stressed the need for exploring untapped markets in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Latin America and African regions instead of concentrating only on two areas –European Union including the UK, and the USA — to enhance export of products and services from …

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission has imposed the regular circuit breaker on any newly listed company from the first trading day, replacing the maximum 50 per cent price movement in the first two trading sessions.

Nagad, the mobile financial service arm of the Bangladesh Post Office, has promoted its donation service making it easier for anyone to pay their zakat or any other financial assistance as part of their efforts to stand by the distressed and helpless people. Due to lack of time and opportunity, …