Dhaka April 29, 2025, 6:04 am
Keeping this in view, a special programme titled 'TrackFin', aimed at monitoring finance in the sanitation and safe water sector, was launched at the opening session of two-day workshop, held at a city hotel.
Robi has been asked to pay Tk 867.24 crore to the telecom regulator and the revenue collector as missed or under payments over a 19-year period, detected after a thorough audit.
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Limited (LHBL) and Citibank, N.A., Bangladesh have signed an agreement towards cooperation that enables LHBL to implement its ‘Supplier Invoice Financing’ programme, said a statement.
Chittagong customs yesterday seized 27 tonnes of fabrics worth Tk 3.36 crore from the Chittagong port over wrong use of bond facility.
Not only has there been a slowdown in shipments but also suspensions of trips of some important buyers to Dhaka .
The garment workers are demanding a minimum monthly wage of Tk 12,020 but the factory owners have proposed a 20 percent hike to Tk 6,360.
The aircraft will be delivered in March, May and June in 2020 under the government-to-government contract, said the Canadian High Commission in Dhaka in a statement.
Japan has assured Bangladesh that it will continue to have duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) access to the Japanese market even after it graduates from the least developed country (LDC) status.
Japan assured him of continued duty free market access to Japan for Bangladeshi goods even after Bangladesh graduates to developing country status.
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved an assistance package totaling more than $357 million for a project to develop two power lines in support of Bangladesh’s national target of electricity for a
Higher classified loans in public banks in the recent years remain a concern for the banking sector from financial stability perspective, the central bank said.
4,44,906 people finding jobs abroad this year, a total of 56,43,820 male and female Bangladeshi workers got overseas employment from 2009 to July 29, 2018, according to an official of the ministry.
The banking industry leaders have called for greater interoperability and safety of the digital payment infrastructure to facilitate the country's move towards becoming a digital economy.
The labour and employment ministry is forking out Tk 110 crore to construct two more dormitories for female garment workers even though the first one remains eerily empty more than a year on.
The two wings of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) have detected the evasion after scrutinising some 2,847 cases since their inception.
Bangladesh Ambassador in Riyadh Golam Moshi has said that stern actions will be taken against the recruiting agencies sending workers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) through fraudulence.
It showed that the export to the US stood at $5.98 billion in FY18, which was $5.84 billion in FY17.
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) will rebuild a 31 km-long existing regional road pouring Tk 300 million (30 core) into each of the kilometres.
Readymade garment (RMG) workers will observe a two-hour hunger strike in front of the office of the wage board on July 31 to press home their demand for fixing Tk 16,000 as minimum wage.
Thirty labour officials have received training on principles and techniques of investigation into unfair labour practices to protect workers against discriminations.
