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Bangla Press Desk: Wage growth in Dhaka Division outpaced urban inflation in July, offering a positive signal for the purchasing power of low-paid workers as Bangladesh's broader inflation rate...
Bangla Press Desk: The Government of Bangladesh and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed a landmark agreement yesterday to implement a €1.125 million European Union-funded project aimed at strengthening climate mobility gov...
Bangla Press Desk: The United States has imposed new tariffs on imports from Bangladesh and nearly 60 other major trading partners, citing their alleged failure to take sufficient action against forced labour in supply chains.The new tariffs to...
Bangla Press Desk: The government would take a decision on installing the country’s third LNG terminal within a month, said Prime Minister Tarique Rahman during a meeting with business leaders on Wednesday.Tarique held the meeting with a delega...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan’s cotton story has moved from decline to dependence. What was once a crop that anchored rural incomes, fed the textile chain and supported export earnings is now increasingly being replaced by imported lint, wit...
Bangla Press Desk: The gold prices jumped again in the local market on Wednesday.The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) has raised the price of 22-carat gold by Tk2,741 per bhori (11.664 grams), setting the new rate at Tk224,182 per bhori...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh is set to implement a new five-year action plan aimed at strengthening the country’s trade capacity, improving the investment climate and enhancing competitiveness in global markets as it prepares for graduation from the...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Railway earned a total of Tk2,066.38 crore in the 2025–26 fiscal year, which ended on 30 June, compared with Tk1,845 crore in 2024–25, marking an increase of Tk221 crore or 11.9%.The largest increase came from the pa...
Bangla Press Desk: Chinese company Huarun Tex Co. Ltd. is set to invest US$30 million to establish a textile manufacturing industry at the BEPZA Economic Zone (BEPZA EZ) in Mirsharai, Chattogram, aiming to produce yarn and woven fabric while creating...
Bangla Press Desk: Additional Commissioner of Customs Tanjina Raees has been dismissed from her job for going to Australia without taking leave. This information was revealed in a notification signed by NBR Chairman (Acting) Ahsan Habib.Earlier, on J...
Bangla Press Desk: The head of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol said on Thursday that if the US and Iran do not come together to improve flows of oil through the Strait of Hormuz soon the world should be worried about energy security."Oil...
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Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Bank (BB) has exempted Shinepukur Ceramics Limited from a specific restrictive provision allowing the company to open Letters of Credit (LC) with a 100% margin through Sonali Bank PLC to import essential raw materials.Th...
Bangla Press Desk: Chinese investors have become the largest source of new industrial investment in Bangladesh's Export Processing Zones (EPZs), accounting for nearly two-thirds of the proposed investment commitments secured by the Bangladesh Export...
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