Dhaka April 30, 2025, 7:55 am
Current account deficit reached $ 9.37 billion in July-May period of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, which was $ 2.21 billion in the same period of the FY'17
This software will initially be installed in 17 banks, including four public ones.
The government has made the initiative to bring new potential and diversified items under the facility with an intent to boost its export basket, they added.
Eight projects involving a substantial cost are struggling as those are facing different types of obstacles to execution.
Gross inflow of FDI stood at $ 2.60 billion in July-May period of FY18 which was $ 2.81 billion in the corresponding period of FY17
government received $5.78 billion worth of concessional loan and $340.05 million in grant during the period between July 2017 and June 2018
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has offered tax exemption facility to three Japanese firms involved in the country's two development projects including metro-rail. Besides, the Japanese nationals employed in the projects
The aggregate amount of borrowing from the banking system rose to Tk 906.42 billion until June 30 from Tk 897.16 billion a year ago
The mangoes were exported from June 6 to July 11 last with joint initiative of Hortex Foundation and Bagha Upazila Agriculture Office through World Food Organization.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board has signed a deal with General Electric to build a 3,600MW LNG-based power plant in Moheshkhali of Cox's Bazar.
The announcement came after meeting all the conditions attached by the Chinese government.
The average annual inflation exceeded the government target of 5.5 per cent in FY 2017-18 mainly due to higher prices of food grains, according to Bangladesh Bank (BB) officials.
The country is set to co-host an international event on "Supporting Smooth Transition of the LDCs towards a Sustainable Graduation" during the 'High Level Political Forum' that is now taking place in New York.
China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday it was “shocked” and would complain to the World Trade Organization, but did not immediately say how it would retaliate. In a statement, it called the US actions “completely unaccep
Managing macro-financial stability in the face of a sizeable current account deficit, changing global and domestic liquidity conditions would require continued careful calibration
Under the existing policy, the lowest investment under such arrangement has to be US$ 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
