Business

Dhaka bourse closed the week setting a milestone in market capital capitalisation riding on investors' enthusiastic participation in large cap sectors. Following the price appreciation witnessed by majority number of listed securities, the market capitalisation on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) hit a fresh...

Though the year of 2020 started with a lot of optimism, all those changed with the onset of Coronavirus pandemic. Things turned grim due to the spread of the deadly virus into every aspect of lives. It has also had a massive negative impact on the global...

I firmly believe that waiting for things to improve is not the best way forward, of course making change happen is a revolution, so what can be best done is to use this time to prepare for a future beyond the pandemic, like some smart companies have done.

iFarmer, a Bangladeshi agritech startup that connects farmers with investors, has closed a six-figure investment from Falcon Network, a Dubai based investor, and Accelerating Asia, an early-stage venture capital fund, announced the startup today. Fahad Ifaz, Co-Founder and CEO, iFarmer said, "We are super...

A large real estate company, Royal Homes, has built a residential project named Royal City in the South Surma area of Sylhet. But, business at the firm has come to a standstill since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Buyers are not paying the installments of the...

Two decades ago, it was just a component of Multimode. Today, Lal Teer is a giant brand in the seed market. Growing with the agro sector over the years, Lal Teer now has at least 200 varieties of vegetable and paddy seeds in its innovation portfolio.

Over a dozen listed firms have so far failed to make their annual financial statements public, thereby keeping the shareholders as well as the new investors in the dark. Besides, the failure to comply with the stock market regulator's directive to timely submit the...

Stocks ended higher on Monday after high volatility despite the news of uncertainty regarding coronavirus vaccine import amid India’s ban on vaccine export for a few months. After a big jump in the first session the year, DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka...

If an e-commerce company fails to deliver in time a product that has been paid in advance during order placement, it will have to pay double the product price in penalty. The buyer will be able to recover the fine by filing a case...

The government has framed a format on feasibility studies to put an end to a decades-long practice of including projects in the development programme without proper assessment and economic viability in order to get rid of delays and cost-overrun. As there is no specific...