Dhaka April 21, 2025, 4:55 pm
A panel of business leaders and analysts on Monday urged the government to announce transport and logistics as a high-priority sector to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI)
Foreign investors, however, emphasised improving Bangladesh's business climate as well as making timely response to requirements of potential investors and measures of other countries taking the changing global supply chain i
Terming the area largely untapped due to unavailability of technology and investment, they said the investors with their technical knowhow and skills can help unlock the potential in a massive way
Some 33,653 taxpayers submitted their tax returns until Saturday (November 27) using the newly-launched eReturn system and a total of 71,500 taxpayers have registered digitally
The banks are Agrani Bank, BASIC Bank, Rupali Bank, Janata Bank, Sonali Bank, AB Bank, Bangladesh Commerce Bank, ICB Islamic Bank, Padma Bank, Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank and Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB)
The government is in comfort zone as the pandemic is ebbing away while development partners are providing loan assistance and grants frequently for completing the ongoing projects
A move is on to readjust upward the tariffs on services at Bangladesh's biggest port in Chattogram, which port-users say will impact the entire economy at a crunch time
The platform will curb the cost of transactions and harassment in making financial transactions
The agriculture sector is playing a driving role for economic development. It is now time to integrate the agriculture sector with the country's financial sector afresh
The prime minister said this while a delegation of 12 IORA member countries had a meeting with her at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in the capital
The Madagascar Permanent Secretary proposed that both countries may establish in cooperation in blue economy including cooperation between maritime universities as well as that in extraction of marine nutrients
The country’s call money rate increased to a 14-month high on Monday due to growing demand of cash in banks as investment has risen in various sectors after the Covid-19 epidemic situation improved recently
A joint business council would facilitate deeper bilateral economic and commercial ties between Bangladesh and the UAE
The BPC promptly moved to import the petroleum to avert any crisis in the power generation
Country's operational power plant owners got around 25-percent higher funds compared to previous FY's Tk 200 billion as incentives from the government against the unused capacity of their plants
A one-day reduction in dwell time [ship's stay time] at Chittagong port would increase export by 7.4 percent
DSCC has issued letters to the defaulters numerous times for paying the dues but they the dues are yet to be paid
Annual export earnings from China alone could be $20-25 billion if Bangladesh could grab just 1 percent share of the Chinese market
The government is modifying the design of under construction Japanese Economic Zone in Narayanganj’s Araihazar area to bring several improvements, including an expansion of the project area, and construction of a power statio
The finance minister came up with remark while Mia Seppo, the outgoing UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh, called on him at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Thursday