BRAC Bank has secured approval from the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission and Bangladesh Bank to issue the country鈥檚 first-ever Social Subordinated Bond, valued at Tk1,000 crore...
Switzerland鈥檚 glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost a quarter of their volume in the past decade alone, a study warned Wednesday, heightening concerns over accelerating melting...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter on Tuesday said that although effective domestic measures were essential to address climate change impacts, noting that Bangladesh was among the countries worst affected by climate change...
Stocks on Monday edged into positive territory on the back of late-session buying activity, although most investors remained cautious in absence of a decisive catalyst for the market鈥檚 revival and stayed watchful ahead of the upcoming earnings season...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange rebounded on Wednesday after consecutive declines, while the Chittagong Stock Exchange ended in the red, though most listed companies saw price gains across both bourses.
Climate change is spurring increasingly erratic and extreme swings between deluge and drought across the world, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
Dhaka Stock Exchange chairman Mominul Islam on Thursday expressed optimism that good companies will enter the capital market under the revised initial public offering system, while weaker ones will be barred.
Scientists estimated Wednesday that rising temperatures from human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly 16,500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released...
Dhaka Stock Exchange chairman Mominul Islam on Tuesday described the country鈥檚 stock market outlook as encouraging, saying that the market has begun to recover as investors are gradually returning.
Bangladesh lost 25 million workdays to extreme heat in 2024, causing an estimated economic loss of up to $1.78 billion, or 0.3鈥�0.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, a World Bank study released in Dhaka on Tuesday said.
Stocks on Monday managed a turnaround from the short-lived correction phase, riding on late-session buying activity, as investors turned back to the market owing to positive expectations amid favourable macroeconomic developments...
BENEATH the rolling waves of the Bay of Bengal lies an untapped fortune, a future Bangladesh has barely begun to claim. As fertile land shrinks under the pressure of climate change, the country must see the Bay not merely as coastline but as lifeline. Its waters hold the capacity to feed 170 million people, drive sustainable growth, and build resilience against...
Gulf Exchange, a premier financial services provider in Qatar, and bKash, the largest mobile financial services platform in Bangladesh, have announced a strategic partnership to improve cross-border remittance services for the Bangladeshi community in Qatar...
Dhaka stocks wrapped up the week lower, as all key indices and market turnover retreated on muted investor activity...
IT IS an eternal reality that societies cannot remain static. Change is inevitable, sometimes forced upon people by the sheer weight of history, sometimes demanded through the sweat and sacrifice of ordinary citizens who dare to imagine a better tomorrow. From ancient times to the present, upheavals have marked the path of humanity. Yet one question lingers like an...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has fined six individuals and one institution a total of Tk 44.40 crore for manipulating shares of two listed companies 鈥� New Line Clothings Limited and Pioneer Insurance Limited 鈥� back in 2021...
Stocks managed a turnaround from the short-lived correction phase, riding on late-session buying activity, as investors turned back to the market owing to positive expectations amid favorable macroeconomic developments...
Protests continued on Tuesday across several districts, including Bagerhat, Faridpur and Pabna, against the boundaries of different parliamentary constituencies redrawn ahead of the next general elections...
The country鈥檚 premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange on Monday lost some steam as profit-booking selloffs pulled the reins of the market鈥檚 upward trajectory, reflecting investor caution after a sustained streak of gains...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange on Sunday witnessed the highest turnover in 12 months, as transactions crossed Tk 1440 crore on the first trading day of the week...
The overall Purchasing Managers鈥� Index of Bangladesh declined by 3.2 points in August, reaching聽a slower expansion rate at 58.3, according to the latest PMI index published jointly by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Policy Exchange Bangladesh on Sunday...
Environment, forest and climate change affairs adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday said that Dhaka would survive if its water bodies were restored and protected...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission has approved draft trust deed of two new mutual funds to be sponsored by Midland Bank PLC, said a press release...
Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC chairman and independent director M Zubaidur Rahman has announced his plan to sell all shares registered under his name through the Dhaka Stock Exchange...
FOR decades, voters have heard promises of integrity, justice and accountability. These promises have come with every election, but they have invariably ended in disappointment. Investigations have faltered, commissions have been wound up and the very leaders who promised to end corruption and impunity have, too, often joined the ranks of those who...
The Dhaka Stock Exchange slipped into negative territory on Sunday, reversing early gains from the opening session, while the Chittagong Stock Exchange managed to hold firm and close the day on a positive note.
The trading of two new Bangladesh Government Treasury Bonds (BGTBs), one with a 20-year tenure and another with a 15-year tenure, has begun at the Dhaka Stock Exchange.
Dhaka Stock Exchange has awarded financial information exchange (FIX) certification to 13 more brokerage houses under its initiative to introduce in-house order management systems (OMS) through application programming interfaces connectivity.
Dhaka Stock Exchange acting managing director Mohammad Asadur Rahman on Tuesday urged the investors not to fall prey to fraud rings that lure people with promises of high returns through WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media platforms...
Shares in heavily indebted China Evergrande Group were taken off the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday, capping a grim reversal of fortune for the once-booming property developer...
