Massive irregularities were found at a post office building construction project, insiders said. They said many new office buildings under the project had construction faults and mismatches in the procurement system. The project implementation authority - Directorate of Post - had purchased 17 vehicles instead of three...
The capital market would become vibrant and dynamic in two years with various reform programmes, said Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam on Saturday. He made the comments at an online seminar titled ‘Capital Market and Covid-19: Charting Impact and Path to Recovery’, organised by...
Easy access to finance for smaller enterprises is required for employment generation and economic recovery during and after the pandemic, experts said on Saturday. They also called for creating a proper database of the labour market situation in the country to formulate time-befitting policies and provide financial...
বৈশ্বিক প্রবৃদ্ধি কম হলে এবং রোগ সংক্রমণের হার উচ্চ থাকলে ৮.২ শতাংশ প্রবৃদ্ধি অর্জন কঠিন হবে বলে অভিমত দিয়েছেন ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের অর্থনীতি বিভাগের অধ্যাপক ড. সায়মা হক বিদিশা। শনিবার (১৮ জুলাই) ‘কোভিড-১৯ ও বাংলাদেশের শ্রম বাজারের চ্যালেঞ্জ’ শীর্ষক সানেম সংযোগের ষষ্ঠ পর্বে উপস্থাপিত মূল প্রবন্ধে ড. সায়মা...
The foreign portfolio investors continued making an exit as they withdrew Tk 1,399 crore from the Bangladesh capital market in the last financial year 2019-20, the highest-ever pull-out amid woes in the country’s financial sector including the stock market, government’s apathy towards the market and global pandemic...
Around six million people became jobless in various sectors due to low production and supply chain disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while experts fear the figure might increase if the current situation continued. South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (Sanem) mentioned this yesterday at a webinar on the...
Bangladesh Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI) has called for providing special focus on fast-growing trends in information technology to overcome COVID-19 impact. The chamber made the call at the BMCCI Web Talk Series, Session-7, titled “RMG Industry Pre COVID and Post COVID”, powered by ROBI,...
The government has expedited the process of replacing more than 70-year-old foreign exchange regulations in order to attract investments while improving the ease of doing business. The foreign exchange policy and operations in Bangladesh are now governed under the provisions of foreign exchange regulations, 1947, which empowered...
In early March, Md Yousuf, proprietor of Srabon Printing Press in the capital's Gopibagh area, thought business would return to normal the following month after a prolonged downturn marked by low work orders. However, till date, his business remains in a nosedive. Yousuf owns a small printer...