The government has significantly raised the price of tobacco products, including cigarette and bidi, which is a major public health concern in Bangladesh, in a bid to restraint tobacco consumption and surge revenue collection.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia says there will be no militancy in the country if the social, familial and religious bondage can be strengthened.

It has become a tradition for the budget to be increased every year by 17-18 percent so this year, there was no reason to expect this to change. Generally, Bangladesh’s budget has maintained a sectoral balance in its stance, giving priority to education, agriculture, infrastructure and social sector expenditures.

The cost of mobile phone usage is going up from tonight as the national board of revenue has already sent statuary regulatory order (SRO) to all mobile phone operators soon after placing the proposed national budget for 2019-20 fiscal in the parliament.

It was a first for Bangladesh. The honourable prime minister had to salvage the budget presentation mid-way to substitute for an ailing debutant finance minister, perhaps lending this policy document greater weight than usual.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, in his budget speech, has projected the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate at 8.2 per cent in the proposed national budget for 2019-20 fiscal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief media over budget tomorrow as Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is ill.

Find the pie charts for the national budget for fiscal year 2019-20 that Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has placed in the parliament.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech in the parliament says that the government will avoid issuing statutory regulatory order (SRO) without any abnormal situation to bring transparency in the revenue management.

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) says the national budget for the 2019-20 was not placed in light of the real situation on the ground.

In a major reshuffle in the police department, 21 SP-ranked police officials including superintendent of police in 12 districts and five deputy commissioners (DCs) of metropolitan cities have been transferred.

Steps have been taken to bring all courts of the country within the ICT network through e-judiciary process to accelerate the disposal of cases, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says in his budget speech at the parliament.

The price of gold will go down as a reduction of duty on its import has been proposed in the budget for fiscal year 2019-20.

BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury says that the government has kept Tk 145,380 crore deficit in the proposed national budget for 2019-20 fiscal which will be realised from people anyhow.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has suggested a number of reforms to bring back discipline in the banking sector.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal proposes changes to duties on different products, which will result in increase and decrease in their prices.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says tax offices will be set up in every upazila of the country.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has vowed to raise the tax-GDP ratio to 15 percent in two years from present 10 percent, a move that needs a lot of efforts and investments from the government to achieve.

Import of smartphones will be costlier as supplementary duty is proposed to be raised by two and half times to 25 per cent from its existing 10 per cent in the proposed budget.

The government will bring all of its employees under insurance coverage, says Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech.