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RMG exports again in positive territory

The country's ready-made garment (RMG) exports in August witnessed a robust 44.63 per cent growth year-on-year.The positive development came after seven months of consecutive negative growth since January 2020. The industry people, however, are not in an upbeat mood as the most shipments, according to them, comprise orders that were...

E-payment of import duty to be made mandatory

The Customs authority is set to make e-payment of duties and taxes mandatory for import of capital machinery and raw materials.The customs wing under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has planned to make the digital payment compulsory as it moves to battle faking invoices while popularising the modern payment.Initially,...

BD sees another horrific month

Bangladesh passed another horrific month as one-fourth of the total coronavirus infections and fatalities here were registered in August.In the month that ended on Monday, the densely populated country saw 1,170 deaths that was 27 per cent of the total 4,281 fatalities recorded so far.In terms of infections, the nation...

Pranab Mukherjee no more

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee, who had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, died on Monday after weeks in hospital, his son and the current president's office said, report agencies.A veteran politician who served as foreign and finance minister in previous administrations, Mukherjee was in a deep coma and...

Govt to give priority to public interest: Momen

The people's interest, nothing else, will get priority at the time of procuring the Covid-19 vaccine, Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said on Monday.The minister made the comment when he was asked about the government's diplomatic efforts in getting Covid vaccine.Bangladesh is in contact with both China and India...

S'pore Air brings WFP's 20 tonnes of PPEs to BD

Singapore Airlines (SIA) operated a flight to Dhaka on Sunday, carrying over 20 tonnes of Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs), including surgical gowns, goggles and nasal oxygen cannula.The flight - SQ446 - arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital at 10:40 pm from Singapore, according to a press release...

Briefing 01-09-2020

Single-day cash deposit to be doubledThe securities regulator has assured stock brokers of doubling single-day cash deposit by investors to accelerate their participation in transactions. The assurance came on Monday at a webinar attended by a large number of stock brokers of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). The chairman of the...