Two shoe salesmen were sent to a remote village to assess the market. The first returned, visibly deflated. “Hopeless! No one wears shoes there,” he said. The second came back beaming, saying, “Amazing! No one wears shoes there!” Same village, same people, same situation, different perspectives. One saw zero demand, the other saw untapped potential.

Chinese state firm employee Zhang Jinming makes up for a 24 percent cut to his salary by delivering food for three hours every night after work and on weekends - and hopes he can avoid awkward encounters with colleagues.

"They are not big countries," says Trump, according to the American political digital newspaper

Officials from Pan Asia Banking Corporation helped thwart the $20 million cyber fraud attempt

Let’s not wait—to witness the nightmare become real.

The DSEX rose 15.58 points before closing the day at 5,132.47

An independent director of Islami Bank and a senior central bank official confirmed the matter to The Daily Star

However, revenue fell by 3 percent year-on-year to Tk 4,103 crore

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has fallen short of its revenue collection target for the 13th consecutive year, with experts opining that the existing framework for tax collection is inadequate.

Bangladesh Bank first introduced the sustainability rating system in 2020

The government yesterday suspended an official of the National Board of Revenue on allegations of breaching service discipline by ‘disclosing a highly confidential state document’.

After years of depreciation that saw the taka lose nearly 30 percent of its value against the US dollar since the Covid-19 pandemic, the local currency is finally showing signs of strength.

Seventy-six years ago, on July 16, 1949, the first tea auction in the region was held in Chattogram. That event marked the birth of what would become the nerve centre of Bangladesh’s tea industry, the Chittagong Tea Auction Centre, which still handles the overwhelming majority of the country’s tea trade.

This world shelters more than 8 billion people but is also home to nonillions of other lifeforms, forming countless ecosystems. Humans, with the power to think and reason, have evolved into the dominant species. We rose above others by breaking natural food chains, using our brains to learn, create tools, and pass down knowledge across generations. This transformed survival into civilisation, culture, and control over nature.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday his firm was “doing our best” to serve China’s vast market for semiconductors after it secured permission from the United States to sell chips to the world’s second-largest economy.

Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte warned on Wednesday that countries such as Brazil, China and India could be hit very hard by secondary sanctions if they continued to do business with Russia.

The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange closed higher yesterday, extending its gains for the second consecutive session.

The government has formed an inter-ministerial committee to assess the economic losses caused by a recent strike and work abstention by revenue officials, according to an order from Internal Resources Division (IRD).

The World Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to support Bangladesh’s development priorities as Johannes Zutt, World Bank vice president for South Asia, concluded his first official visit to the country yesterday.

Bangladesh is currently reviewing the proposals and will send a response within the next couple of days, Commerce Secretary Mahbubur Rahman told The Daily Star yesterday over the phone.