The proposed budget has provided relief to pharmaceuticals manufacturers and patients as it retained duty-free import benefits for over 100 raw materials used in making life saving cancer, heart disease and diabetes drugs. 

Bangladesh Bank today relaxed rules regarding financing availed by commercial importers to cater to cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

The facility will support the borrowers struggling to pay back loans amid lingering crisis at home and abroad

Sugar refiners' proposal to hike sugar prices unreasonable, it says

The Secure Transactions of (Moveable Assets) Bill 2023 placed at the parliament

It made the call in a meeting at the PMO

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the authorities concerned at Ecnec meeting

This company will produce 10 million pieces of different kind of boxes for packaging like paper boxes, jewelry boxes, jewelry bag, watch boxes, and gift boxes, according to a press release.

The DSEX, the benchmark index of the bourse in Bangladesh, inched up 6 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 6,320 at 11:00 am.

Like in the outgoing financial year, the common people in Bangladesh will continue to suffer from higher consumer prices in 2023-24 as the factors behind the elevated level of inflation are unlikely to change dramatically.

Pran Agro is going to raise funds of Tk 262.5 crore form institutional investors and high-net worth people by issuing bonds.

Noted economist Prof Nurul Islam’s contribution to the independence of Bangladesh and nation building after independence was remarkable as he played a role in diagnosing the disparity between the then East Pakistan and West Pakistan, launch the first five-year plan and enlist Bangladesh as a least developed country (LDC), said economists. 

Pubali Bank Limited has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bproperty at the bank’s head office in Dhaka.

A new feature styled “Auto Pay” has recently been added to bKash app’s Send Money service to make it more convenient for users.

NRBC Bank’s assets have increased by 29 per cent to Tk 16,115 crore by the end of December 2022, compared to the previous year’s Tk 12,462 crore.

UCEP Bangladesh in collaboration with Standard Chartered has launched an entrepreneurship development initiative with a view to empowering 2,000 vulnerable youths with employable skills and entrepreneurship training.

The key indexes of the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges rose yesterday despite the central bank unveiling a contractionary monetary policy a day earlier and scrapping the interest rate cap on loans. 

It’s been long since we had been following the Income Tax Ordinance 1984 and the most important issue is that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has imposed a condition at the time of approval of the loan to the government to introduce a new tax act.

The refiners yesterday urged the government to hike retail prices of packaged sugar by 20 per cent to Tk 150 a kilogramme citing spiral in import costs due to a rise in the sweetener’s international rates and higher spending for US dollar.

The government should allow more private companies to build effluent treatment plants (ETPs) inside Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), said Shaheen Ahmed, chairman of Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA), yesterday.