লবণ চাষিদের কৃষিপণ্যের আওতায় রেয়াতি সুবিধায় সহজ শর্তে চার শতাংশ সুদে ঋণ দেওয়ার জন্য কক্সবাজারে অবস্থিত সাতটি ব্যাংকের প্রতি অনুরোধ জানিয়ে চিঠি দিয়েছে বাংলাদেশ ক্ষুদ্র ও কুটির শিল্প করপোরেশন (বিসিক)।
সম্প্রতি কক্সবাজারে বিসিকের লবণ শিল্প উন্নয়ন কার্যালয় থেকে এ চিঠি দেওয়া হয়েছে। ব্যাংকগুলো হচ্ছে- কক্সবাজারে...
Bangladesh's quick economic recovery from the COVID-19 depends on the length of the shutdown, and quality of the pandemic management measures, a senior Asian Development Bank official says.
"The performance of the global economy is another factor. The expected sluggish recovery in the rest...
The International Monetary Fund said that the global economic outlook has worsened since its latest forecast three weeks ago and the world can expect more waves of financial-market turbulence. Developing nations’ external financing needs probably will be far above the $2.5 trillion that the IMF has previously projected, Chief...
Bangladesh is ready to manufacture KN95 standard masks, locally, to cater for the spiked demand for high-specification respirators amid Covid-19. JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd, a medical equipment maker, has completed successful test runs of its newly-installed lines that can manufacture 40,000 KN95 standard masks a day....
National Tubes Limited, the only state-owned pipe manufacturer under the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC), returned to profit in the fiscal 2019-20 after three years.
“National Tubes Limited has earned Taka 91.27 lakh till March 2019-20. Besides, it has paid Taka 7.01 crore...
Bamboos worth around Tk6 crore are rotting in Khagrachari and Rangamati for lack of transportation amid the countrywide shutdown over coronavirus pandemic. Piled up beside roads and on river banks, the bamboos are rotting as those dry up in the sun and then get wet in rain. The Chattogram...
Some
125 publicly-traded companies in the manufacturing and service sectors have
expressed fears of heavy losses due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Among
them, 116 companies are in the manufacturing sector, such as RMG, cement,
ceramics, engineering, and tannery sector. The other nine are in the real
estate and service sector. These companies are...
Halaluddin, president of Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity, an association of shop owners, told UNB they have no access to the Tk 72,750 crore stimulus package declared by the government to address the adverse impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the country’s economy, though they shut down their...
Solar module manufacturers say the coronavirus outbreak has hampered their operations and forced them to shut down factories leading to a huge financial loss which will be “impossible to overcome without the government’s assistance”. In a recent letter sent to the Commerce Ministry, the manufacturers said the...