Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) today emphasized the necessity of exploring new revenue sources, enhancing efficiency in existing collection mechanisms, and sealing leakages to mobilize additional public resources.
According to Bangladesh S…
Mongla: A foreign ship carrying 470 reconditioned vehicles from Japan docked at Mongla Port on Monday noon. The ship, M.V. Viking Drive, bearing the flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, arrived at jetty no. 9 around 12 noon. The 164-metre-lon…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Ahsan H Mansur today announced that the government will ensure the safety of depositors’ money by taking over banks before merging weaker banks into stronger ones. “Depositors have no reason to worry as they will b…
Dhaka: The country’s light engineering sector has the potential to tap into the vast global market, with the possibility of exporting up to $100 billion, provided there is adequate policy support, investment, and infrastructural development. Md. Abdur…
Dhaka: The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has taken a decision to set the yearly maintenance fees of the beneficiary owners’ (BOs) accounts at Tk 150. The decision was made during a meeting held today, as announced in a BSEC pres…
Dhaka: Ahead of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, the government today fixed the prices of salt-applied rawhides of cows at Tk 60 to Tk 65 per square foot in the city and Tk 55 to Tk 60 per square foot outside the capital. The price of goat hides was set at Tk 22…
Dhaka: The National Pension Authority organized a workshop at the conference room of the Cabinet Division at Bangladesh Secretariat, involving officials from the Finance Division, Cabinet Division, and the National Pension Authority.
According to Ba…
Dhaka: Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee today laid emphasis on looking beyond GDP figures to achieve sustainable economic development. ‘Too much focus is placed on GDP. GDP is high in large countries, but we should be talking about GDP per ca…
Dhaka: Abdelouahab Saidani, Ambassador of Algeria to Bangladesh, met with Commerce Adviser Sk. Bashir Uddin at the Bangladesh Secretariat today. During their meeting, the two officials explored avenues for enhancing bilateral relations and boosting tr…