All customs houses and stations will remain open every day, except on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr, to facilitate import and export activities, said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday.

Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed yesterday said the interim government will not incorporate any mega projects that cost billions of dollars in the next budget for FY2025-26.

In 2012, the UN General Assembly declared 20 March as the International Day of Happiness to recognise the relevance of happiness and well-being as universal goals and aspirations in human lives.

Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in Bangladesh saw a slowdown in loan recovery as many firms struggled to repay debts amid an economic slowdown and persistent inflation.

Noni Gopal Baidya, a resident of Sutarkhali union in Dacope, a southwestern coastal upazila under Khulna division, began farming exportable black tiger shrimp on his 6-7 bighas of land in 1991.

Corruption in Bangladesh has not been eradicated and remains quite difficult to eliminate, according to Commerce Adviser Sk Bashir Uddin.

"This downtrend will lead to severe consequences if it is not reversed"

The government has launched an initiative to modernise and revive six shuttered sugar mills, aiming to transform them into profitable enterprises through public-private partnerships and advanced technology.

Islamic wings of conventional banks have become the preferred choice for religiously inclined depositors as many full-fledged Shariah-based banks struggle with a crisis of trust.

Islamic wings of conventional banks have become the preferred choice for religiously inclined depositors as many full-fledged Shariah-based banks struggle with a crisis of trust..This shift has emerged after controversies and financial scandals involving Shariah-based banks, many of which

Stock investors attributed the lack of interest among general shareholders to the company’s significant losses

He further claimed that large-scale corruption, which previously led to the theft of Tk 28 lakh crore, is no longer occurring at the same level.

At the start of the fiscal year, the government raised the SIM tax by 50 percent to Tk 300. AMTOB also called for Supplementary Duty (SD) and Surcharge (SC) removal on telecom services. 

As part of the initiative, the CPA arranged an 11-day training on the use of the IORIS platform

Shopping malls, footpaths abuzz with shoppers

SM Faruqi Hasan, founding president of the Ontario unit of the Awami League, is involved in the case

The benchmark index remained almost flat to hit 5,207 points as of 12:14pm

Uttara declared the dividend when many banks were not allowed to do so due to strict regulatory rules

The government has approved the purchase of two cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for April at a cost of Tk 1,376 crore.

The interim government has formed a four-member committee to strengthen the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), the stock market regulator.