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National Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed inaugurated the three-day exhibition at the InterContinental Dhaka hotel. Photo : Collected The 30th US Trade Show 2026 began in the capital on Thursday, marking three decades of expanding trade and commercial relations between Bangladesh and the United States. National Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed inaugurated the three-day exhibition at the InterContinental Dhaka hotel, ...

Gold prices in Bangladesh have risen by another Tk 3,324 per Bhori, taking the price of 22-carat bullion to Tk 224,182 in a fresh adjustment by the Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS). The new rates took effect nationwide at 1:45pm on Wednesday, just two days after the previous increase. BAJUS had raised the price by Tk 3,266 on Monday, setting it ...

Google has announced an additional $15 billion investment in Malaysia over the next two years to expand its data centre infrastructure, creating more than 37,000 local jobs annually during construction, according to Malay Mail. Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, announced the investment at an AI event in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday (November 4). The ...

Registrations of new Tesla cars rose sharply across several European markets in October, extending the US electric vehicle maker’s recovery in the region, but gains were uneven as Chinese rivals continued to expand their market share. Tesla registrations soared 248% in Sweden, 131% in Norway and 34% in Denmark, data from Mobility Sweden, Norway’s OFV and Denmark’s bilstatistik.dk showed. The ...

Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir has urged Turkish businesses to increase investment in Bangladesh’s leather, non-leather, ready-made garment (RMG) and shipbuilding industries. He also called for the removal of customs barriers and reduction of additional tariffs on Bangladeshi products entering the Turkish market to help expand bilateral trade. He made the call during a bilateral meeting with Turkish Trade Minister ...

Oil prices slipped more than 1% on Monday after Iranian and Qatari officials held a third straight day of talks aimed at pushing for a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran. Brent crude futures fell $1.59, or 1.40%, to $111.84 a barrel by 0011 GMT while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $102.56 a barrel, down $1.56, ...

Bangladesh lost an estimated USD$17.5 billion in potential earnings in 2025 due to heat exposure, highlighting the growing economic cost of climate change as rising temperatures increasingly threaten public health, productivity and livelihoods, according to the 2026 Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change. The country also lost an average of more than 26 billion potential labour hours annually ...

ICC Bangladesh President Mahbubur Rahman has said access to affordable foreign currency financing has become increasingly important for sustaining international trade, industrial production and investment amid Bangladesh’s challenging economic environment. He made the observation while delivering his closing remarks at the ICC Workshop on “Obtaining Import Financing in Foreign Currency–Challenges and Solutions,” jointly organised by International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)- ...

Gold prices in Bangladesh have been cut again, with the price of 22-carat gold, the highest quality available in the local market, reduced by Tk 5,481 per bhori (11.664 grams). The new prices came into effect at 10am on Saturday, according to the Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS). With the latest adjustment, the price of 22-carat gold has been fixed at ...

Scholastica Limited, one of Bangladesh’s prominent English-medium school operators, had total liabilities of Tk730 crore in December 2025, including Tk727 crore in defaulted loans, according to IFIC Bank records. An investigation based on bank records and audit documents also found that more than Tk425 crore was reportedly transferred to a company whose existence could not be verified. The findings have ...