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Business Idea Zone: Empowering Entrepreneurs with Innovative Business Ideas and Startup Insights
BUSINESS

Business Idea Zone: Empowering Entrepreneurs with Innovative Business Ideas and Startup Insights

Business Idea Zone is a digital platform dedicated to inspiring aspiring entrepreneurs, small business owners, and startup enthusiasts with innovative business ideas, practical business insights, and valuable entrepreneurial resources. The platform aims to help individuals discover new opportunities, explore business possibilities, and take informed steps toward building successful ventures. With a focus on creativity, entrepreneurship, and business growth, Business Idea Zone seeks to make business knowledge more accessible to everyone.

Business Desk•Oct 22, 2026
Exploring our diplomatic ties: Bangladesh & Uzbekistan FTA
OPINION

Exploring our diplomatic ties: Bangladesh & Uzbekistan FTA

We are encouraged by the recent diplomatic engagements exploring a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between Bangladesh and Uzbekistan. Bangladesh's economic diplomacy has long remained narrowly tethered to a handful of traditional Western and regional markets.

Farhana Akhter Rahim•Oct 19, 2026
Loan disbursement for reviving closed industries go slow
BUSINESS

Loan disbursement for reviving closed industries go slow

Despite Bangladesh Bank announcement of a Tk10,000 crore stimulus package to reopen closed factories, generate new employment, and revitalize the economy, progress in loan disbursement remains sluggish. Over the past five months, entrepreneurs have received only Tk641 crore.

Shahidul Kabir•Oct 19, 2026
Helping teachers keep up in the era of digital classrooms
OPINION

Helping teachers keep up in the era of digital classrooms

It goes without saying that in an era where students navigate complex digital landscapes with ease, educators can no longer rely on chalkboard methods of the past. To that end, we agree with modern continuous professional pedagogy upgrades.

Anjuman Ara Begum•Oct 19, 2026