Tax rates, fiscal measures to be consistent: Kamal
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday pledged to maintain consistency in tax rates and other fiscal measures and frame a simple budget from the next fiscal year (FY).In a meeting with income tax officials, Mr Kamal asked the taxmen to avoid issuance of statutory regulatory orders (SROs) after budget...
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BD lagging far behind in chasing some targets
Bangladesh is falling behind on a number of core SDG indicators, including the ones relating to revenue generation and foreign direct investment, according to the latest SDG progress report of the government. At the same time, unavailability of quality, accessible, timely, reliable and disaggregated data is hindering the implementation of...
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BB's legal battle likely to end in three years
The Bangladesh Bank's (BB) lawyer concerned has opined that the legal battle for recovering the money, stolen from its reserve account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (NY Fed) in the US, might be completed within three years."Around three years may be needed to complete the trial of...
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Mannan rues growing regional disparity
Planning Minister M A Mannan expressed on Sunday his deep concern over growing regional disparity, saying such a development goes against the philosophy of the country's independence."It is our bad luck that regional disparity is persisting in our country, although we had fought against it in 1971," Mr. Mannan said...
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BD set to get DFQF access to China Dhaka, Beijing to sign deal soon
China is set to grant duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access for all Bangladeshi products shortly, trade officials said.Except tobacco and maize, all the major Bangladeshi products like apparel, leather, jute and jute goods, medicine and frozen fish will be on the list.Bangladesh is going to get the facility under...
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Work on Dhaka Metro Rail Project
Work on Dhaka Metro Rail Project going on rapidly. The photo was taken in Shewrapara area of the capital on Sunday—FE photo by KAZ Sumon
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News Watch- (4-2-2019)
First phase of UZ polls on March 10The first phase of Upazila council elections will be held on March 10 next. Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin announced the election schedule at a press conference at the EC secretariat Sunday. The last date for the submission of nomination papers is February...
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Prayer Timings-(4-2-2019)
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