The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in Bangladesh, once known solely for voice-based customer service and back-office support, is cautiously but steadily embracing artificial intelligence (AI) to stay relevant in an evolving global market...This shift was evident at the r

Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has defended the interim government’s conservative budget strategy, pushing back against economists’ criticism that it follows an “old road”..“A highway is born out of the old road. Every new highway begins as a rural path,” Ahmed said yesterday, after the

This time, they will observe the strike for three hours beginning at 9 am on June 23

The draft has already been sent to the task force committee

He says at a press briefing at the ERF

The interim government has planned to nearly double its public food storage capacity to 37 lakh tonnes in the next fiscal year.

The depositors of the International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL) have urged the Bangladesh Bank to intervene so they can recover their money.

Disbursement of agricultural credit by scheduled banks surged significantly month-on-month in April, although it was slightly lower than that in the corresponding period of last year..According to a report by the Bangladesh Bank, banks disbursed a total of Tk 3,239 crore in agricultural lo

If a company gets listed, it will enjoy tax benefits, and this is one of the major incentives for them to go public..However, the government’s frequent policy changes have disheartened listed firms many times, as they faced higher tax rates once they got listed..It gave a clear, nega

The Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) yesterday termed reform measures in the proposed national budget "positive" but warned that implementation of certain tax measures may lead to unintended burdens on industries and individuals.

The allocation for the power division in the national budget for fiscal year 2025-26 is around 30 percent less than that of the previous fiscal year, while it has been nearly doubled for the energy and mineral resources division. .The government has decided to cut electricity production c

The government has proposed a 3.55 percent rise in the budget allocation for agriculture, food, livestock and fisheries in the next fiscal year, setting aside Tk 39,620 crore..But agro-economists say the increase is far from sufficient to ensure the country’s long-term food security..<p

Just a day after the interim government proposed the national budget and tax measures for fiscal year 2025-26, leading business chambers expressed significant concern that several measures could potentially impede business growth and affect investment.

Corruption remains a pervasive challenge across the country, undermining the effective implementation of the national budget, Anisuzzaman Chowdhury, special assistant to the chief adviser, said at a post-budget discussion yesterday.

If you're planning to import cheap lipstick into Bangladesh anytime soon, think again. The country's interim government, in its latest budget, has quietly declared war on undervalued imports with a series of oddly specific tweaks to customs rules. Among the victims: chocolate bars, lipsticks, eye shadow, and -- wait for it -- inflatable toys.

The country’s trade deficit narrowed by 2.60 percent in the first ten months of the current fiscal year compared to the same period a year ago, thanks to a rise in export earnings coupled with subdued imports..During the July-April period of fiscal year (FY) 2024-25, the trade gap was $18.

In the Finance Ordinance 2025–26, presented on Monday, the government proposed amending the Customs Act 2023 and revising the penalty structure for tax evasion related to intentional false declarations during import clearance, reducing the minimum fine from twice the evaded amount to an equivale

The fresh funding will help the company accelerate its expansion in the eSIM market

Md Abdur Razzak, additional secretary (IIT) at the commerce ministry, is the chairman of the election board

Economist Dr Mustafa K Mujeri has urged the government to place its main emphasis on reducing of societal inequality in the forthcoming national budget for the fiscal year 2025-26..He made the call during a pre-budget discussion titled “National Budget for FY2025-2026: A Pre-Budget Discuss