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Five more ports of call and two water routes added

Up to 60m people will be pushed into “extreme poverty” by the coronavirus warns the president of the World Bank.

Asian markets were mixed Wednesday as a rally over the previous two days ran out of steam on profit-taking, with investor confidence also tempered by ongoing worries about the long-term damage that lockdowns are having on the global economy.

Fourteen banks on Monday signed separate agreements with the Bangladesh Bank to disburse Tk 150 billion in loans as part of refinancing facilities to support implementation of the stimulus package for large industries.

The steel sector in Bangladesh has incurred approximately Tk 30 billion losses in March-April this year due to a drastic fall in demand and halt in steel production for coronavirus pandemic.

Robi Axiata Limited is going to face hurdles with its plan to issue 13.6 crore shares to its employees after getting approval for its initial public offering, which is not in line with the laws of the land.

With the Covid-19 pandemic going on, the government has called general holiday, urging people to stay at home. In these trying times, the country’s e-commerce platform PriyoShop is performing

Uncertainty has griped 443 ongoing ADP projects, deadline of which is expiring this June, as a result of officials’ negligence in extending their deadline amid COVID-19 fallout.

Hopes for a vaccine to treat coronavirus and a further easing of lockdown measures around the world spurred a rally on Asian markets Tuesday as investors tracked a surge across Europe and Wall Street.

Robi Axiata Limited has been recognized as the best socially devoted brand in the world for the first quarter (Q1’20) of 2020 by unified social media marketing platform and online analytics organization ‘Socialbakers’.