The UK car industry sold a record number of all-electric vehicles in 2024 but still fell short of the government’s mandated targets, an industry trade body said Saturday.

Once a key supply hub for agricultural inputs and fuel to the greater northern region, Baghabari river port in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj is now seeing more and more cargo vessels avoiding it due to years of neglect in navigability management and inadequate port facilities.

While hiking value-added tax (VAT) on 43 goods and services, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is also focusing on widening income tax coverage by phasing out exemptions to raise the tax to GDP ratio.

The export of home textiles is on the path to recovery after nearly one year because of the devaluation of the local currency, increased production capacity and improvement in gas supplies to some extent.

The company is exporting to more than 52 countries and employs over 50,000 people

People are switching to shampoo mini-packs from regular bottles, women are sacrificing their tiny luxuries of cosmetic puffs while households are embracing cheap but substandard detergents for laundry: this is exactly what happens when brutal price pressures push around 78 lakh people below the poverty line in just two years and stalk another 1 crore to do so.

Prof Anisur Rahman, economist and member of the country’s first Planning Commission formed after independence, died at a hospital in the capital yesterday at the age of 91.

Technical glitch delays day’s stock trading at the DSE by 1.5 hours

Unavoidable circumstances led to the halt, says DSE

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has found a mismatch of Tk 82.44 lakh between cash kept in BRAC Bank’s Chokoria branch vault in Cox’s Bazar and that mentioned in its books..The difference was detected during an inspection of the central bank..The BB started the inspection on December 22 las

Annual sales of engine oil in Bangladesh more than doubled to Tk 8,000 crore in 2024 from Tk 3,616 crore five years ago, driven by higher prices, increased mobility, industrial growth and overall economic activities..And the sector is expected to clock more growth in the coming years, indu

First Security Islami Bank PLC has sent its managing director on a forced leave over his alleged involvement in irregularities centring loans provided to companies linked with S Alam Group.

The price of poultry feed remains high in Bangladesh despite its fall in global markets, said Suman Hawlader, president of the Bangladesh Poultry Association (BPA).

The government’s recent move to increase value-added tax (VAT) on 43 goods and services has raised two key questions: will it generate enough revenue to avoid a huge budget deficit and will it further stoke an already high inflation?

The local currency taka has officially depreciated against the US dollar after seven months as the central bank recently raised the reference rate for taka-dollar transactions by Tk 2.

Despite some episodic spikes here and there, the economy of Bangladesh is still struggling, and the government isn’t sure what the top priority should be.

Six out of the 21 private inland container depots (ICDs) have come up as the major handlers of export and import-laden containers in the just concluded year of 2024, when business in the ICDs rose 16 percent year-on-year.

An internal audit found Syed Waseque Md Ali’s involvement in loan irregularities with S Alam’s companies

KDS Logistics managed to retain its top position among ICDs in handling export and import containers in 2024

Bangladesh Poultry Association says, revealing plan to start selling eggs, chicken countrywide