New Age

DSE moves to digitalise market fully after flak over long closure

Mostafizur Rahman | Updated at 10:33pm on June 05, 2020

The Dhaka Stock Exchange has initiated a move to digitalise the market fully following a spate of criticisms over prolonged closure of trading on the bourse during the general holidays amid the...
Shwapno sales surge as consumers opt for safety

Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 10:36pm on June 05, 2020

From checking panic buying to streamlining supply chain as well as facilitating online shopping and introducing home delivery, largest local grocery chain Shwapno has seized the COVID-19 crisis to...
300 Bangladeshis stranded as India restricts Tabligh activities

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury | Updated at 10:47pm on June 05, 2020

The Indian government has imposed restrictions on foreigners ‘on engaging in Tabligh activities’ with provisions for imposing a penalty of $500 for violation of visa guidelines in this regard...
Resurgent Bangladesh proposes lockdown exit strategy framework

Business Desk | Updated at 10:50pm on June 05, 2020

Resurgent Bangladesh, a platform to help Bangladesh devise strategies and polices for COVID-19 economic recovery, presented a model lockdown exit strategy framework at its first dialogue for...
Major oil producers to meet today about output cuts

Agence France-Presse . Vienna | Updated at 10:53pm on June 05, 2020

Top oil producing countries will meet via video conference on Saturday instead of next week, a source close to OPEC said on Friday, to assess their current agreement on output cuts, as...
Digital ventures to come under tax net

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:00pm on June 04, 2020

The National Board of Revenue is likely to make it mandatory for digital ventures such as start-up companies to obtain electronic taxpayer identification number and submit income tax returns in the...
Private sector credit growth slumps to 8.82pc in Apr amid pandemic

HM Murtuza | Updated at 10:03pm on June 04, 2020

The private sector credit growth plunged to 8.82 per cent in April as the business and economic activities in the country came almost to a halt due to the countrywide shutdown imposed by the...
DSE turnover hits 13-year low

Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:05pm on June 04, 2020

Dhaka stocks fell for the fourth session on Thursday with the turnover hitting a 13-year low as investors were unwilling to buy shares even at the lowest possible prices under the regulator-enforced floor price...