Dhaka August 18, 2025, 11:31 am
The aggregate amount of borrowing from the banking system rose to Tk 906.42 billion until June 30 from Tk 897.16 billion a year ago
The mangoes were exported from June 6 to July 11 last with joint initiative of Hortex Foundation and Bagha Upazila Agriculture Office through World Food Organization.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board has signed a deal with General Electric to build a 3,600MW LNG-based power plant in Moheshkhali of Cox's Bazar.
The announcement came after meeting all the conditions attached by the Chinese government.
The average annual inflation exceeded the government target of 5.5 per cent in FY 2017-18 mainly due to higher prices of food grains, according to Bangladesh Bank (BB) officials.
The country is set to co-host an international event on "Supporting Smooth Transition of the LDCs towards a Sustainable Graduation" during the 'High Level Political Forum' that is now taking place in New York.
China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday it was “shocked” and would complain to the World Trade Organization, but did not immediately say how it would retaliate. In a statement, it called the US actions “completely unaccep
Managing macro-financial stability in the face of a sizeable current account deficit, changing global and domestic liquidity conditions would require continued careful calibration
Under the existing policy, the lowest investment under such arrangement has to be US$ 250 million. The board of governors of the PPP Authority at a recent meeting decided to lower the ceiling to $ 150 million to raise the num
NBR officials said the VAT authority withdrew the exemption after it found many of the countries are collecting VAT from port services for operating international flights
“We’ve sent a letter to the newly-formed government of Malaysia in this regard. Once they give their approval, we can expect the technical committee to have their first meeting by this month,”.
Taxpayers now will have to show an increase by 15 per cent in income from the particular sources that they showed in the previous fiscal's tax returns to get exemption from any audit
Jobless growth is a situation where the economy grows but generates very few jobs, much less than the potential. Muhith urged non-government economic research agencies, including Policy Research Institute and Centre for Polic
The pay-roll tax deducted from the salaries and wages of the employees will have be stated in details as per the new clause and be submitted once a year
The RNPP is being built under an agreement with Russia which will finance most part of the total cost of the plant. Russian contractors are already working at the project site
The global rights group in a recent letter to top 25 brands that source garment products from Bangladesh urged them to continue sourcing from here after the proposed wage hike. They also asked for increasing the prices of the
The government is considering lowering service charge for sending money through postal department significantly. The department is finding ways to restore the facility that the people used as a means of secured money transfer
There will be around 12 components under the project. Those are the construction of container terminal jetty 1 and 2,construction of container handling yard, container delivery yard, shade, security wall automation and other
The country received $12,769.45 million remittance in 2016-17 fiscal. In 2015-16 fiscal, the amount was $14,931.18 million while the Bangladeshi expatriates sent $15,316.91 million in 2014-15 fiscal
Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif on Friday distributed cheques among the affected farmers of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant area at a function at Upazila Parishad in Ishwardi
