Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun called upon the multipurpose companies yesterday to maintain product quality to grab the global markets. "We don't want to stay in our local market only. We want to catch the global competitive markets with our quality products," he said while…

Stocks finished the week down yesterday with falling trend of all major price indices at Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges. The broader DSEX of the DSE finished the week with 129 points down at 5,821.01. The blue-chip DS30 and Shariah DSES also followed the same trend with 41.04 points down at 2,007.96…

MD Jahurul Haque has been made chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommuni-cation Regulatory Commi-ssion (BTRC) for two years. The order will be effective…

Businesses should use waterways between Bangladesh and India more to reduce congestion at land ports and roads, according to speakers at a business conclave yesterday. They urged businessmen to opt for coastal waterways to transport cargoes as it would be cheaper and take less time. They came up with…

Top US and Chinese trade officials returned to the bargaining table on Wednesday, working to avoid a sharp escalation in the trade war between the world’s…

The world’s biggest shipbuilder, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in ailing number two Daewoo from the government, Seoul said yesterday . The world’s top three shipbuilders are South Korean—Samsung Heavy ranks third—but…

PRAN, a leading food processor in the country, bagged export orders worth around $2 million at ISM Fair, one of largest trade fairs for ‘sweets…

Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba said Wednesday that net profit increased 37 per cent in the latest quarter as growth in cloud computing and other business lines helped offset a slowing expansion in core online retail. Net profit reached 33.0 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) in the October-December third…