The value added tax (VAT) on locally made biscuits and sweetmeat is likely going to be reduced in the national budget for fiscal year 2023-24 being announced today.  

High corporate taxes on banks, non-bank financial institutions, merchant banks, insurance companies and telecommunication companies are not logical as their profit is not high compared to capital, said Shahidul Islam, chief executive officer of VIPB Asset Management Company.

They discussed RMG sector's future development

Bangladesh’s economy has been growing at an average 6 per cent annually for the last two decades. Yet the country has witnessed a spike in income and consumption inequality.

Exporters, remittance recipients will get Tk 107 for $1

They are Brac Bank, City, Dutch-Bangla, Eastern, NCC, Premier and Mercantile

The fund is named Investasia Balance Unit Fund

The two signed a deal today

The two AI tools marked what should be Bangladesh' priority

It will issue 50 lakh shares worth Tk 10 each

It hit Tk 1,198 crore, up from the previous day's Tk 976 crore

BTCCI president meets Thai envoy to Bangladesh

Just a year ago, Aminur Rahman, a private sector employee living in Dhaka, could buy a moderate amount of essential goods, including rice, soybean oil, onions, salt and eggs, at Tk 553 from stores in Dhaka city

MM Saiful Islam has joined Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) as a deputy managing director (DMD) on Monday.

Oil fell by nearly 2 per cent on Tuesday as concerns about the US debt ceiling pact cooled the market’s risk-on sentiment and mixed messages from major producers clouded the supply outlook ahead of their meeting this weekend.

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) yesterday issued guidelines for non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing and asked them to draw up separate regulations. 

Key indices with the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) returned to the black yesterday just after falling for a single session the previous day.

On a hot summer afternoon, 23-year old Nizamudin Abdul Rahim Khan is playing cricket on a muddy, unpaved road in the Rafiq Nagar slum in India’s financial capital, Mumbai.

Textile millers in Bangladesh yesterday urged woven and knitwear exporters to buy a portion of their required yarn and fabrics from local markets so that they can overcome the current crisis situation and help save the country’s foreign reserve.

Export-oriented listed company Envoy Textiles Ltd has indefinitely postponed an annual general meeting scheduled to be held on June 26, when a dividend for shareholders was scheduled to be approved, till a case involving its directors was disposed of.