FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday lambasted businessmen for "lopsided talks" saying while one group is in favour of lowering taxes the other group is opposed to it."You know the businesses very well. I know them even better. They...
A decade of data on electronic Government Procurement, or e-GP, shows that 5 per cent of contractors dominate 61 per cent of the projects in the 10 ministries with the highest spending, according to Transparency International Bangladesh, or TIB.Meanwhile, the...
Eighty-two police officers who served in elections during the Awami League government have been made Officers on Special Duty, or OSD, reports bdnews24.com.OSDs are usually political victims, having no work to do either in the policymaking or the implementation process...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Under the green cluster, Dhaka Nagar Paribahan resumed Tuesday its services after more than two years on a new route from Gabtoli to Narayanganj with air-conditioned buses.However, several bus services are already operating on the same route. Road Transport and...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is actively considering introducing a platform for mobile interoperability within a short period of time to further facilitate automated transactions, Governor Dr Ahsan H. Mansur said on Tuesday."We don't have mobile interoperability and it is something that...
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 25 (UNB): BNP Vice-Chairman and former minister Abdullah Al Noman passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday morning. He was 82.He breathed his last around 6 am at Square Hospitals Ltd in Dhaka,...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has simplified the VAT (Value added tax) refund process for the superstore businesses by waiving the requirement to furnish details on the use of raw materials.Usually, manufacturers are supposed to submit 'input-output coefficient' to...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Renowned economist Dr Rehman Sobhan Tuesday said there is a fundamental difference between political and interim governments.Dr Sobhan, also the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) chairman, said the present interim government, formed after a mass uprising, is not bound to...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Businesses at a dialogue on Tuesday stressed the need for an improved law and order situation to support their operations. They also demanded the government's prioritised measures for resolving the energy crisis to ensure manufacturers' competitiveness in the global market,...
Nahid Islam, who resigned as Information and Broadcasting Adviser, on Tuesday said he stepped down to play a greater active role on the streets in realising the aspirations of the July uprising, rather than remaining within the government.Speaking at a...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
A gradual recovery of Bangladesh economy during the second quarter of this fiscal year is a bit retarded by 'substantial' hurdles like inflationary pressures, revenue shortfall and sluggish investment, a business body says. "In the quarter under review (October-December of...
Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman urges all parties to eschew "fighting, bickering and mudslinging", which may imperil Bangladesh's sovereignty, as he outlines his hope for elections by December."I am telling you this today otherwise you'll say I didn't warn you," he...
Muhammad Yunus, chief advisor of the interim government, says that Bangladesh as a state is responsible for ensuring justice for the brutal massacre during the mutiny at the Pilkhana headquarters of the country's border security force, reports bdnews24.com.The chief advisor's...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
A bailout policy-support committee constituted by the central bank for the affected businesses sits with all commercial banks' chief executives soon to motivate them as the lenders hesitate to reschedule non-wilful defaulters' loans.Sources said at the last meeting with the...
Sixteen years after one of the deadliest military mutinies in Bangladesh's history, the victims of the 2009 Pilkhana massacre were remembered on the newly proclaimed "National Martyred Army Day", reports bdnews24.com.The recognition comes after years of appeals from bereaved families...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Notwithstanding various regulatory rescue efforts to keep all the crisis-hit commercial banks operational, Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Ahsan H. Mansur gives up hope of keeping a few alive on government doles.He says the central bank has been working hard to...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Wednesday), according to the Met Office. The highest temperature in the country on Tuesday was recorded at 31.3 degrees...
RANGAMATI, Feb 25 (BSS): The district administration has reopened Sajek valley at Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila for the visitors, revoking an earlier order discouraging people to travel this popular tourist destination following a devastating fire on Monday.Additional District Magistrate Pathan Md....
Pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh increasingly influence medical prescriptions by offering incentives to doctors, raising ethical and medical concerns that largely go unchecked, reports UNB.Sales representatives from pharmaceutical companies are often seen waiting outside clinics and hospitals, eager for a moment...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
Speakers at a roundtable discussion on women's empowerment emphasised that changing the mindsets of both men and women is key to achieving gender equality in the country.They highlighted the need for policy reforms and collective efforts to close gender gaps...
The government has given promotions to seven additional secretaries and transferred two secretaries in nine ministries and divisions, report agencies.The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday.The ministries and divisions include Commerce Ministry, Cultural Affairs Ministry,...
A court in Narayanganj has placed Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former state minister for posts, telecommunications and information technology, on a 12-day remand, allowing four days of interrogation for each of the three cases filed against him, report agencies.Senior Judicial Magistrate...
A Dhaka court has ordered to freeze about Tk 1.4 billion in 27 bank accounts of former law minister Anisul Huq, his family members and confidantes, report agencies.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order on...
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives and Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain has underscored the need for bringing reforms to personal, political and social life along with the state in the post uprising period, reports BSS."Bringing reforms...
A Dhaka court has imposed a travel ban on former Narayanganj-4 lawmaker Shamim Osman, his wife Salma Osman, son Imtinan Osman and daughter Labiba Zoha, over graft allegations, report agencies.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with other senior party leaders pays tributes to BNP Vice-Chairman and former minister Abdullah Al Noman by placing a wreath at his coffin after namaz-e-janaza in front of its Nayapaltan central office...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-26 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the government to reinstate 82 upazila election officers, who were terminated 18 years ago, in their posts with all facilities.The apex court also asked the authorities concerned to give due...
NAGPUR, India, Feb 25 (Reuters): Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies by attending classes every weekday for the past two months in his home city of Nagpur in...
The 7th meeting of the Investment Committee of Takaful Islami Insurance PLC was held on Monday at Dhanmondi in Dhaka. Chairman of the Committee Engr. Khandaker Mesbahuddin Ahmed presided over the meeting which was attended by Tahmina Afroz, Jahirul Islam,...
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