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Reuters 2021-05-03 10:56:57
A leading Indian industry body urged authorities to take the “strongest national steps” and to curtail economic activity to save lives on Sunday as the country battles surging coronavirus...
-- 2021-05-03 09:34:55
The central bank has allowed banks to provide remittance facilities to the e-commerce platforms for facilitating their activities in Bangladesh, officials said. All authorized dealer (AD) banks are n...
-- 2021-05-03 09:14:01
Industries are again worried about their future as business activities have slowed down in the second quarter of 2021 following a strong resurgence of the Covid-19, according to a survey. As per the...
UNB 2021-05-02 22:38:11
Insufficient allocation, lengthy procedure, difficulty in bank-related services, and lack of information about the procedure left 68 per cent of businesses unable to avail the government's stimulus pa...
FE Online Report 2021-05-02 20:50:45
The single month export earnings in April, 2021 grew by over 500 per cent to $3.13 billion mainly due to reopening of major importing countries’ economies that helped the recovery of readymade...
-- 2021-05-02 20:02:27
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent $20,672 million in remittance during the first 10 months of the current fiscal 2020- 21, which is apparently 39 per cent higher than the same period of the preceding year,...
REUTERS 2021-05-02 15:12:16
India’s trade deficit in goods was $15.24 billion in April, preliminary data released by the government on Sunday showed. Merchandise exports rose to $30.21 billion for the month from $10.17 bi...
-- 2021-05-01 17:24:29
Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya has said Bangladesh and India need a “much more robust framework” for their future economic relations...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-05-01 09:41:17
The government's bank borrowing target is unlikely to be achieved by the end of this fiscal year (FY) due to lower implementation of the annual development programme (ADP) caused by the ongoing Covid-...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-05-01 09:39:37
The ongoing 'lockdown', enforced to curb Covid infections and fatalities, is set to cut the country's economic growth prospects for the current financial year (FY 2020-21). The economy was in a recov...
OUR CORRESPOMDENT 2021-04-30 10:59:18
CHATTOGRAM: After its United Nations status graduation in 2026, Bangladesh may lose most of the preferential trade benefits from countries and blocs of its main export destinations if the South Asian...
-- 2021-04-29 15:29:28
Hit hard by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are now pinning hopes on the upcoming budget to stay afloat. Not to mention that the survival of...
FE Online Report 2021-04-29 12:32:20
A leading think-tank today (Thursday) terms the government’s forecast that the country’s economy would grow by 7.40 per cent in the current fiscal year (FY21) ‘a highly optimistic pr...
FE REPORT 2021-04-29 10:49:54
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has formed a high-powered committee to find out the possible challenges of the country after graduating from the least developed country (LDC) in 2026 and overcome...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR 2021-04-29 10:41:54
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has sought to spend Tk 12.93 billion as tax and VAT for widening a 54km road with support from the Indian Line of Credit (LoC) in eastern Bangladesh, insiders h...
-- 2021-04-28 14:11:43
Bangladesh, which weathered the pandemic better than most economies in South Asia, will continue to grow strongly as exports pick up. The country’s GDP growth is projected to accelerate 6.8 per...
DOULOT AKTER MALA 2021-04-28 09:54:15
Tax revenue collection in the month of March registered a hefty 22.65 per cent growth despite Covid-19 pandemic thanks to a surge in import of goods. According to data of the National Board of Revenu...
Global Times 2021-04-27 15:36:00
The application of China's Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DC/EP), also known as digital yuan, which has already been on a fast development track since last year, is taking another critical step...
-- 2021-04-27 11:14:57
A boost in e-commerce business fuelled by the trend of staying home amid the coronavirus pandemic has generated jobs in the sector while other areas of the economy are struggling to cope up with the s...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-04-27 09:32:43
The central bank has amended its policy allowing all banks to form their own start-up fund with 1.0 per cent of net profits instead of operating ones earlier, officials said. To provide start-up entr...
TALHA BIN HABIB AND YASIR WARDAD 2021-04-27 09:28:13
The government's target to procure 1.8-million tonnes of Boro rice this year may not be achieved as the millers find the prices offered unattractive. On Monday, food minister Shadhan Chandra Majumder...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM 2021-04-26 10:29:41
The yield on treasury bills (T-bills) dropped further on Sunday as the commercial banks having excess liquidity rushed to offer bids in the auction due to the ongoing lockdown, bankers said. The cut-...
FE REPORT 2021-04-26 10:28:45
A total of over 12 million families would be benefited from the government's financial allocation of over Tk 5.74 billion during the Covid-19 pandemic, said the State Minister for Disaster Management...
UNB 2021-04-25 21:35:07
Nikkei Asia, in its recent article, praised Bangladesh's growth describing how the economy has boomed and exports soared. The article also described how Bangladesh's economy has even exhibited resili...
FE REPORT 2021-04-24 10:58:11
Despite having potentials, the aquaculture sector in Bangladesh has been affected badly in the wake of the pandemic mainly due to the increased cost of fish feed and sluggish demand, according to a st...
FE REPORT 2021-04-24 09:35:59
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) intends to expand the VAT (value-added tax) net instead of raising the VAT rate in the budget for the next fiscal year (FY), said its VAT (policy wing) member Md...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2021-04-24 09:18:35
The interest rate of the country's many foreign borrowings is likely to go up, as the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) will cease to be effective in the case of most currencies, including the U...
REUTERS 2021-04-23 10:50:58
The global economy will recover this year from its coronavirus slump at a pace not seen since the 1970s as strong momentum builds in most major economies, according to Reuters polls of over 500 econ...
Doulat Akter Mala 2021-04-23 09:31:48
The tax revenue target and the capacity of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) are ill-matched. That is one of the major reasons for the widening shortfall in revenue collection, Mr Farid Uddin, a f...
FE REPORT 2021-04-22 09:12:37
Revenue collection should not be the main goal of the government under the prevailing circumstances. Instead, it should think about how best it can save life and livelihood, Dr A. K. Enamul Haque, Pro...
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