Sohel Parvez

Taxpayers will have to explain the sources of their income while making a land purchase, said the National Board of Revenue.

New Delhi has agreed to Dhaka's proposal to include a provision in the bilateral trade agreement for transporting goods from

A team from Russia is likely to call in Bangladesh in the second week of April to assess the country's capacity of controlling plant

Bangladesh is likely to bag higher boro and wheat crops in 2015 than last year, thanks to increased plantation and higher yields, the

The National Board of Revenue has taken an initiative to develop contents for primary and high school students to educate them on the

A tax dispute has arisen between the National Board of Revenue and Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus over gifting of earned

The Customs Bond Commissionerate of Dhaka has asked banks to open letters of credit in favour of active firms only.

Some 476 factories have vanished after taking tax and duty-free benefits under the bonded warehouse facility, costing the country

Speculation of poor crops for unfavourable weather and resumption of exports have fuelled potato prices, raising farmers' hopes of

The government is set to enforce contract farming arrangement to ensure export of safe betel leaves to the European Union, an official

Prices of farmed chicken have shot up at the city markets, thanks to reduced production and disruption in supply from

The government is set to build a central packing house to ensure the fruits and vegetables that are shipped abroad are safe and of

Soaring rice imports and ongoing political unrest have dampened paddy market sentiments, with many farmers having to sell off their stock at lower prices.

Some 40 lakh new faces entered the job market between 2010 and 2013 and an equal number of people got jobs thanks to increasing economic activities in non-farm sectors, according to the Labour Force Survey 2013.

SEVENTY-NINE years ago, Manik Bandopadhyay painted the picture of the strugglesof fishermen in his famous novel,'Boatman of the Padma River.' The struggle for survival and livelihood remains to this day for many fishermen.

Rice imports hit a four-year high as traders find foreign produce, mainly from India, cheaper.

Every day around noon, Md Ujjal Hossain pauses at his banana orchard to admire how well the fruit of his labour has turned out. “Look at the banana stems -- they have grown so well. I was dreaming of getting a bounty from them,” said the 34-year-old grower from Meherpur, a major farming district in the southwest.

It was simply out of hobby that Abdul Gafur, from Jhikargacha upazila of Jessore, started rearing cows in 1991.

Shahanara Begum, 35, felt relieved that she could buy a cauliflower on credit from a street vegetable vendor. Her five children will get some vegetable curry in their next few meals instead of potato and pulse over the past four days.

Things may not seem that bad in the capital, but elsewhere the almost two-month-long blockade coupled with frequent hartals has hit every aspect of people's lives very hard. With inter-district communications snapped, businesses have come to a near-halt,