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Every people will be benefited by the budget: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina describes the proposed budget for FY 2019-20 as people-friendly, development-oriented and balanced one, saying that everyone will be benefitted by the budget as it will help continue the pace of ongoing development.
29 June 2019, 12:36 PM
BASIC Bank gets new MD
State-owned BASIC Bank has finally got a managing director. The post had been vacant since November last year.
26 June 2019, 18:00 PM
NRB Bank re-elects chairman
Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman has recently been re-elected chairman of NRB Bank.
26 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Mobile users feeling the budget pinch
Mobile users have already started to feel the heat of the proposed budget for fiscal 2019-20, which proposed doubling the supplementary duty and higher turnover tax on operators, said experts and related bodies yesterday.
26 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Hackers hit global telcos in espionage campaign: Cyber research firm
Hackers have broken into the systems of more than a dozen global telecoms companies and taken large amounts of personal and corporate data, researchers from a cyber security company says, identifying links to previous Chinese cyber-espionage campaigns.
25 June 2019, 07:08 AM
Drones, bad weather cause flight delays and diversions at Changi Airport on Monday
Unauthorised drones cause flight delays and disruptions at Changi Airport, just days after a previous incident saw 37 flights delayed.
25 June 2019, 04:25 AM
MPs slam insufficient budget for education, health, culture
Lawmakers from treasury and opposition benches lambaste Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for keeping insufficient allocation for education, health and culture sectors in the proposed budget for 2019-20 fiscal year.
22 June 2019, 15:58 PM
Names of top 300 loan defaulters disclosed
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal reveals the names of the top 300 loan defaulters in the parliament.
22 June 2019, 10:38 AM
Paper importers demand 80pc import duty cut in budget
The paper importers of the country urge the government to fix five percent import duty in the budget from the existing 25 percent to help the local industry flourish.
22 June 2019, 10:29 AM
Reform budgetary system to achieve desired goal: Shujan
Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform for good governance, has underscored the urgent need to reform the budgetary system for achieving the country’s desired goal.
21 June 2019, 07:37 AM
Bank of England chops Q2 growth forecast
The Bank of England cut its growth forecast for Britain’s economy to zero in the second quarter of 2019 and highlighted risks from global trade tensions and growing fears of a no-deal Brexit.
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Matia slams finance minister for increasing tax on family savings certificate
Senior Awami League leader Matia Chowdhury lambastes Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for increasing tax on family savings certificate from five per cent to 10 per cent in the proposed budget for 2019-20 fiscal.
20 June 2019, 13:43 PM
‘Added duty will boost illegal mobile imports’
The duty proposed on smartphones will push up illegal imports and cause big revenue losses for the government, industry stakeholders say.
19 June 2019, 08:07 AM
Telcos asked to charge Tk 0.25 for Bangla SMS
The telecom regulator directs all the mobile phone operators in the country to reduce the charges of each local SMS to Tk 0.25 that are written in Bengali alphabet, aiming to promote the mother language.
19 June 2019, 04:37 AM
15% tax on retained earnings of multinationals to affect FDI inflow
Imposing 15 per cent tax on retained earnings of the multinational companies and their stock dividends will affect the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as the companies will feel discouraged to reinvest from their earnings, says the official of a leading trade body.
18 June 2019, 15:27 PM
Migrants’ Welfare: Budget skips core problems
Cash incentives on remittance offered in the next budget will help boost foreign currency inflow, but the decline in allocation for the expatriate welfare ministry means low priority for the migrant workers’ rights, analysts said.
17 June 2019, 18:00 PM
NGO’s want more budget for the disabled
A group of non-government organisations have called upon the government to reconsider the budgetary allocation for people with disabilities.
17 June 2019, 08:14 AM
Sugar, edible oil prices may rise
Prices of some items such as sugar and edible oil may go up due to a spike in customs tariff and imposition of VAT for the fiscal 2019-20, Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, chairman of the National Board of Revenue, said yesterday.
16 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Budget will make the rich even richer: Manna
Nagarik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna says the proposed budget for fiscal year 2019-20 is not pro poor people rather it will make the rich even richer.
16 June 2019, 08:02 AM
Budget FY2019-20: Agriculture spending rises but farmers’ distress likely to remain
Although no sweeping changes were expected, the general anticipation was that the FY2019-20 budget would have some measures to help the small farmers, especially after the severe loss of the boro farmers this year, creating a depressed rural economy. Over the years
15 June 2019, 18:00 PM