Dhaka February 24, 2025, 1:18 pm
The export earnings reached $3.14 billion in September, the third month of current fiscal (2018-19). The country fetched $2.03 billion during the corresponding period of previous fiscal
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to find reasons behind the departure of some large foreign investors.
Two American economists, William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for integrating climate change and technological innovation into macroeconomic analysis
Both the 1320 MW coal-fired Payra power plant and 1320 MW Rampal power plant are now being constructed with a target to start operation in 2020
Finance Minister A M A Muhith has expressed the hope that the country's capital market would flourish in near future based on the foundation built over the last 25 years
Operating costs of gearless vessels are also less than those of geared vessels as the later involves cost of operators and power
Bangladesh is currently in the middle of implementing its Seventh Five-Year Plan which spans from fiscal year (FY) 2015-16 to FY 2019-20. The Eighth Five-Year Plan, on the other hand, would be implemented from FY 2020-21 to F
The wages of tea workers have been increased by 20 per cent to Tk 102 per day and Tk 714 per week with retrospective effect from January 1 in 2017.
Analysis prepared by the central bank showed that the ratio of value addition in the RMG sector dropped to 74.63 per cent in FY18 from 75.08 per cent in FY17
SDG target 11 stresses access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums by 2030
The World Bank (WB) has approved $515 million US dollar for three projects in Bangladesh to improve coastal and marine fisheries, forest management, and rural roads
The three cranes are part of the six that the port authority purchased at Tk 3.44 billion in 2017 from Chinese company Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited. The rest three may arrive during the first week of next
The two countries have started scrutinising ways to delete rules from the deal that they deem unnecessary and incorporate new ones
Main goals of the policy are to ease the gold import process to fulfill the demand for commercial use of gold locally and export gold ornaments and fix specific gold import authority for ensuring transparency and accountabili
The government's policy of poverty elimination is to reduce poverty rate 1.6 to 1.8 per cent every year. We have to lift people living under poverty line" the minister said while addressing at a seminar titled 'Development of
Bangladesh’s current global ranking of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 42nd and it is set to become the 26th largest economy in the world by 2030, as per the projection
Bangladesh received remittances worth over $3.86 billion in the first three months (July-September) of current fiscal year, an increase of 13.73 per cent from the corresponding period a year earlier
The wing under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) recently issued an instruction for all tax offices across the country after it found many taxpayers are submitting returns in the old forms
The basic pay of RMG workers constituted 67.69 per cent of the gross minimum wage in 2006. The proposed one is equivalent to 51.25 per cent
Experts noted that 93 per cent of the total Tk 2,370.39 billion loan, disbursed as green finance between 2013 and 2017, has been loaned under the category of indirect green finance
