The rules set by the government for people’s movement during the pandemic will leave little impact on the economy and the lives of the general mass, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said yesterday.

Though overall annual development programme (ADP) implementation slightly rose year-on-year in the current fiscal year’s first half, government spending for development projects is still below that of the pre-pandemic period.

Low-cost Kuwaiti airline Jazeera Airways is going to launch direct flights between Chattogram and Kuwait from today.

Foster Corporation from today will start providing refunds to Qcoom customers whose advance payments got stuck with the payment gateway for non-delivery of products by the e-commerce platform.

The central bank announced a special package in February 2020 to prop up the stock market as the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) was hovering around a seven-year low of 4,385 points.

The government yesterday gave the go-ahead to five projects involving Tk 1,022 crore.

The Bangladesh Bank today instructed banks to collect Covid-19 vaccine certificate from their employees such that the third wave of the coronavirus can be contained efficiently.

Foster Corporation will start providing refunds from tomorrow to Qcoom customers whose advance payments got stuck with the payment gateway for non-delivery of products by the e-commerce platform.

Steps will be taken to solve the tax and stimulus related problems of the district level members of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry if they share the issues in written form, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

The government today gave go-ahead to five projects involving Tk 1,022 crore.

The rules set by the government for people’s movement during the pandemic will leave little impact on the economy and the lives of the general mass, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said today.

Hotel and motel owners in Kuakata, one of the most popular tourist spots in Bangladesh, are once again paying heavy prices as bookings are being cancelled owing to the latest spike in coronavirus cases.

The government should move gradually and reconsider energy companies’ recent proposal to raise gas prices as any sharp hike will increase overall cost of production of industries, said Abul Kasem Khan, chairperson of Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD).

The biggest peanut market in Rangpur is almost never found on the same spot two years in a row due to the changing waters of Brahmaputra river in Chilmari upazila of Kurigram.

Maize is being traded for as much as Tk 30 per kilogramme (kg), the highest on record in Bangladesh, influenced by high international prices, a development that has created interest among many growers to expand cultivation of the grain, a key ingredient for poultry, cattle and fish feed.

Marred with scams, controversies and uncertainty over the recovery of thousands of crores of embezzled taka, the country’s e-commerce sector has witnessed the appearance of yet another platform led by none other than the poster boy of Bangladesh cricket, Shakib Al Hasan.

Top business leaders yesterday urged the government to take steps to put an end to the harassment businesses face at the hands of VAT and tax officials and extend the loan moratorium period to help them recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

Leading local pharmaceutical company Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd has announced the receipt of a sublicence from the Medicine Patent Pool (MPP), on behalf of originator company MSD, to produce Covid-19 oral drug “molnupiravir”.

The businessmen from Dhaka and district levels have urged the government to save them from the pressure that the VAT and income tax officials are putting on them for tax collection even during the Covid 19 fallouts.

The government plans to use the country’s foreign currency reserves to implement a $370.96 million power transmission project, ignoring warning from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).