China can narrow its technological gap with the US driven by growing risk-taking and innovation, though the lack of advanced chipmaking tools is hobbling the sector, the country’s leading artificial intelligence researchers said on Saturday.

Md Ezazul Islam, executive director of Bangladesh Bank, has been appointed as the director general of the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM).

TSMC, the world’s largest manufacturer of advanced artificial intelligence chips, is expected to post a 27 percent jump in fourth-quarter net profit to a record due to the seemingly insatiable demand for AI infrastructure.

Iqtiaruddin Md Mamun, a commissioner of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), has been appointed head of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) on a contractual basis.

Bangladesh Bank has doubled the annual licence renewal fee for money changers, raising it to Tk 10,000 from Tk 5,000.

Closing the income tax file of a taxpayer after death and paying the outstanding tax is an important and indispensable activity

The NBR commissioner has been appointed for a two-year term

The BB issued a circular in this regard today

The directive was given at a bankers' meeting at the BB headquarters

The Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has announced a reduction in registration and renewal fees for two categories of .bd domain names to encourage local use.

Businesses voice frustration over policy concentration

The government is set to slash allocations for development spending by 12.5 percent in the current fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26), as the originally allocated fund remains largely unspent in the first five months.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has set a target to reduce non-performing loans (NPLs) to 25 percent from the current 36 percent by March, according to senior bankers.

The 15th edition of the “Garments Accessories and Packaging Expo-2026 (GAPEXPO)” is going to be held in Dhaka between January 14 and 17 to showcase garment accessories, fabrics, yarn, and textile machinery from home and abroad.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has rolled out a new large-value transaction facility allowing corporate tax and value-added tax payments through the mobile financial service provider, bKash.

Bangladesh recorded a surge in net foreign direct investment (FDI) during the July-September quarter of 2025, with reinvested earnings emerging as the dominant driver of growth -- a development that reflects both investor confidence and limitations in attracting fresh capital.

But kept package prices unchanged

Prolonged political unrest poses a major drag on Bangladesh’s economic growth amid global trade uncertainty, said BMI, a provider of insights, data, and analytics owned by Fitch Solutions.

After the interim government kept bank lending rates high for about one and a half years to reduce inflation, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed acknowledged that tight monetary policy alone cannot cool soaring prices.

An acute shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has forced nearly all autogas stations across the country to shut down operations, said Serajul Mawla, president of the Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association, yesterday.