Dhaka June 19, 2025, 1:36 pm
The overall tax collection fell short of the target by over half a trillion taka in the last three quarters of the current fiscal year.
Sheikh Fazle Fahim, the 24th president of FBCCI will assume the office on May 19.
The country's overall export to India reached US$1.07 billion during July-April period of the current fiscal (FY), 2018-19, marking a robust 53 per cent growth.
The country's prime Dhaka-Chattogram highway has turned bad cracks developed in almost 192 kilometres within two years into the completion of the four-lane work.
The government is likely to stop giving permission to set up new power plants for now, considering that the existing plants are enough to meet the demand for power until 2030.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) and the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) do not have any objection now over the new VAT law that will be implemented from the first of July this year.
The PPP Authority is set to start by next month searching private investors for developing its tourism sector projects in four potential districts.
The net sales of state-run savings instruments rose by more than 8.0 per cent in nine months of the current fiscal year (FY), compared to the same period of the previous fiscal.
A meeting of the crisis management core committee under labour ministry ended on Monday, without fixing any deadline for paying the monthly wages and festival allowances to the country's garment workers.
A hefty Tk 5.3 billion of six state-owned banks remains stuck against 160,225 cases filed to recover from farm loan borrowers, statistics showed.
The government has finally decided to employ the Norwegian-US joint venture (JV) TGS-Schlumberger for carrying out a survey to delineate the hydrocarbon reserves in the Bay of Bengal.
The government's drives to procure 1.2 million tonnes of the staple and export 1.0 million tonnes have failed the peasantry, market observers maintained.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has alleged the apex chamber body is trying to impede the implementation of new VAT law once again.
The government has moved to set up three utility-scale wind power plants as part of its efforts to enhance electricity generation from renewable energy sources, officials said.
Chinese oil giant Sinopec is eyeing to team up with French company Technip to jointly build a new 3.0 million tonnes per year (Mtpa) capacity crude oil refinery worth US$1.15 billion (Tk 89.49 billion) in Chattogram.
This comes at odd with the board's earlier stance on verifying the information before the issuance of fresh VAT registration.
The central bank has relaxed regulation allowing foreigners to open temporary non-resident Taka account (NRTA) with any scheduled bank along with authorised dealer (AD) bank branches to facilitate foreign direct investment (F
The government has taken a number of ‘important’ projects to expand the activities and surveillance of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) across the country.
Norwegian Telenor Group, parent company of Bangladesh’s leading mobile operator Grameenphone, and Malaysia-based Axiata, parent company of another mobile operator Robi, are in negotiation to merge their Asia operations, keepi
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has exempted the import of raw materials for production of Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredients (API) from VAT payment until December 2025.
