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The government is likely to impose income tax on the businesses having no permanent establishments in Bangladesh. The imposition of tax may come into force from the next fiscal year...
The share of proceeds from readymade garment exports in the country's total export earning has gone further up despite exhortations to diversify the country's exportables, said tradespeople. Knit and woven...
Exports from Bangladesh to SAARC countries are being subjected to various types of non-tariff and para-tariff barriers, according to a study carried out by the Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) recently....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Saturday night, wrapping up her two-day official visit to West Bengal, India. A VVIP flight of Bangladesh Biman Airlines carrying the Prime Minister...
An enfant terrible is not necessarily an adorable mischief-monger. In conventional notion, these unpredictable children always remain busy making mischievous plans. In most of the instances, those prove to be...
Severe gas crisis is now persisting in the capital Dhaka and the port city Chattagram. Such crisis usually occurs in winter due to increased demand and condensation in the pipeline,...
The negative development, as reported last Friday in this paper, on the country's manpower export front during the first four months of the current calendar year would only revive the...
The culture of risk management began in Bangladesh after the adoption of Basel I capital accords in 1996 by the Bangladesh Bank (BB). However, Basel I considered credit risk as...
RANGPUR, May 26 (BSS): A record production of fibreless, fleshy and tasty 'Haribhanga' mango is likely in Rangpur agriculture region this season as its harvest begins from the middle of...
The good news is that the United States and China appear to have backed away from the precipice of a trade war. While vague in detail, a May 19 agreement...
A potential US-China trade war appears to be "put on hold" and exactly that's what US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a TV channel on Sunday, May 20. Why did...
Fishermen were failing to catch adequate hilsa fish from Meghna River for last one week, triggering frustration among them in Laxmipur. District Fisheries Office said last two months -- March...
The White House Saturday said a team is still heading to Singapore this weekend to work on logistics for a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader...
Four people including two brothers were killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Sylhet sadar and Tahirpur upazilas on Saturday. In Tahirpur upazila, Jahur Alam, 35, resident of Menjargaon...
The much anticipated Dearness Allowance (DA) for journalists, as recommended by the Wage Board, will probably be gazetted next week. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu made the disclosure at a...
Migration as a livelihood strategy has duly drawn the attention of academics and policymakers as it is considered as a linchpin of economic growth. The role of remittance in Bangladesh's...
The revenue collection at Benapole Land Port has fallen below target in the current fiscal year due to a number of reasons. However, statistics show the number of imports to...
Sub-Saharan Africa is confronting a pronounced rise in public debt. At the end of 2017, average public debt in the region was 57 per cent of its gross domestic product...
Bangladesh will recover the total expenditure of Bangabandhu-1 Satellite within next 7 or 8 years and after that the country will earn large amount of profit from the satellite. State...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has assured that no tailback will be created on the Dhaka-Tangail highway ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr this year. The minister came up with the...
At least 22 people, including three children, have been killed in a bus crash in northern Uganda, police said. The bus hit a tractor that was driving with no lights...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday visited Netaji Shubhas Chandra Bose Museum at Netaji Bhaban, the ancestral home of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in Kolkata. Sheikh Hasina went round different...
Former Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been released on $1m (£751,000) bail after being charged in New York with rape and sexual abuse. Mr Weinstein, 66, also agreed to...
Two people, including a pickup driver, were killed while two others injured as the vehicle overturned on Magura-Jhenidah road at Abalpur on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Noor Islam,...
The Amnesty International has called on Bangladesh and India to address specific human rights concerns in the wake of bilateral meetings between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Prime Minister Narendra...
The ban on fishing in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Bay of Bengal would continue till July 23, aiming to preserve and ensure smooth breeding of sea fish...
Nipah virus claimed one more life in north Kerala on Saturday, taking the death toll to 13 even as state health authorities intensified efforts to detect the primary source of...
Law enforcers arrested a total of 128 people during the ongoing anti-narcotics drives in Rajshahi, Bagerhat, Jhalokati and Sherpur districts in the last 24 hours till 4 pm Saturday. In...
Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation has developed automated individual radiation dose monitoring system (AIRDMS) specially for the people working at different nuclear establishments. AIRDMS is designed to receive, collect,...
Two international flights failed to meet their arrival schedule at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Saturday. Of the delayed flights, BG092 from Kolkata was supposed to arrive at the...
Leaders of Bangladesh Garments Workers Unity Council (BGWUC) on Saturday demanded that the RMG factory owners pay their workers' wages and festival bonus before the 20th Ramadan. They came up...
BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday questioned the motive behind Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ‘repeated’ India tours when she could not even discuss the Teesta-water issue. Speaking at...
Amid the growing demand ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, domestic airlines have decided to operate additional flights on different routes to serve more homebound passengers. Unusual tailbacks on Dhaka-Chattogram highway, the busiest...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a surprise meeting on the inter-Korean border on Saturday. The Blue House, the executive office and official...
Pakistan expects to obtain fresh Chinese loans worth $1-2 billion to help it avert a balance of payments crisis, Pakistani government sources said, in another sign of Islamabad's growing reliance...
Leaders of various farmers' organisations have demanded special allocation in the upcoming national budget for the construction of permanent embankments in coastal areas to save agricultural land, reports UNB. They...
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) is set to complete its ongoing survey of hotels and restaurants in the next one month, official sources said. The BFSA, which is under...
Bangladesh has already emerged as a success story of inclusive growth with a human face, former governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Atiur Rahman has said. A farsighted financial inclusion strategy...
People in the port city are experiencing severe gas supply shortage in the month of Ramadan, as the gas distribution authority concerned cannot supply half of the natural gas demand....
A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of robbers in Ruhutia bricks field area in Sadar Upazila of Feni early Saturday. The deceased was identified...
Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank of the largest economic country in Southeast Asia, has predicted 5.15 per cent economic growth in the second quarter. The economic growth in the...
Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) has recently organised a daylong conference for Chief Regional Managers, Regional Managers, Corporate Branch Heads and Branch Managers of Khulna division. Md Ali Hossain Prodhania, Managing...
A mobile court in Cumilla on Saturday sentenced 10 drug traders to different terms of imprisonment in the city and Chandiana upazila. A team of Kotwali Police in a drive...
US consumer sentiment index was 98.0 in May, barely below the 98.8 in April and just above the 97.1 in last May's survey, according to the University of Michigan (UM)...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a daylong drive on Friday filed 2,480 cases against different modes of vehicles under traffic rule violation laws. Traffic division in their simultaneous drives on...
Net inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from Singapore declined by 69 per cent in 2017, according to the latest statistics of the central bank. It showed that the net...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in an anti-narcotics drive at Geneva camp in Mohammadpur in the capital, detained around 100 people along with various types of drugs on Saturday....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the songs and poems of Kazi Nazrul Islam were both the inspiration and the weapons of the Bangla Language Movement and the Liberation War. She...
Bollywood actress Kajol has unveiled her wax statue at Madame Tussauds Singapore, the newest addition to the museum’s International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards Experience. "It is truly an honour...
A total of 373 houses in three villages of Betila Union under Sadar Upazila of Manikganj district have been brought under rural electrification network (REB) by Manikganj Palli Bidyut Samity....
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