The number of electronic filings of tax returns more than doubled to over 5 lakh since July this year, thanks to the steps taken by the National Board of Revenue (NBR). .Individual taxpayers filed 2.17 lakh returns between July 1 and November 24 of this fiscal year, according to the NBR.<

Renata PLC has raised Tk 536 crore by issuing zero coupon bonds and preference shares, saying the funds would be used to reduce its average cost of lending. 

Taufika Foods and Lovello Ice-cream PLC has announced that it would acquire a 50 percent stake in Sharika Foods & Amandala Ltd at a cost of Tk 50 lakh. 

State-owned Atlas Bangladesh and private manufacturer Runner Automobiles have teamed up to cater to the growing local market for motorcycle helmets, which currently relies on imported products.

From tomorrow, each bhori of 22-carat gold will cost Tk 140,376

Over 5 lakh submitted e-returns since July 1 to November 24

The change took into account a $3 billion contract Intel had been offered to make chips for the Pentagon, the people told the Times.

Two weeks of acrimonious negotiations in Azerbaijan's capital Baku resulted in a deal for $300 billion in annual climate finance by 2035

DSEX gains 19.69 points as of 11:02 am 

With the increase in international trade of Bangladesh, efficient cross-border trade will have notable implications for the country’s status graduation from the least developed country (LDC) to a developing one, said Mahbubur Rahman, president of the International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh

Stocks in Bangladesh yesterday stretched their losing streak to two days consecutively as investors grappled with the fallout of Moody’s recent downgrade of the country’s foreign credit rating..The US-based credit rating agency also revised its long-term economic outlook for Bangladesh fro

President-elect Donald Trump may have campaigned hard against high inflation, but by the time of his Nov. 5 election victory financial professionals had moved on from rising prices and begun worrying about rising US debt, possible recession, and risks to global trade as among the top threats to the stability of the financial sector, according to a new Federal Reserve survey released on Friday.

Leading local drugmaker Renata PLC has issued preference shares of up to Tk 325 crore to refinance its loans.

Some global banks are considering temporarily halting fresh credit to India’s Adani Group but staying put with existing loans following US prosecutors’ indictment of its billionaire founder Gautam Adani for fraud, sources said.

There is no denying that Bangladesh’s economy has grown at a fast and more or less constant rate since the early 90s. Similarly, our dependence on foreign loans and grants for development budget had also reduced after, among others, the introduction of VAT.

The government has formed a six-member committee to review the labour and business environment at the Beximco Industrial Park, an enclave of 24 industrial units owned by troubled conglomerate Beximco.

There has been a significant year-on-year rise in the number of containers handled at Chattogram port in the three months till October while there was a drop in the overall handling of cargo and ships.

Around 57 percent of surveyed small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cited the existing tax structure as the main obstacle to doing business in compliance with the law, according to a report by the SME Foundation.

With public projects disrupted following the political changeover on August 5 and the interim government exercising caution in spending, the implementation rate of the annual development programme (ADP) fell to at least 14-year low in the July-October period of this fiscal year.

Targeted cash transfers to poor households could reduce Bangladesh’s poverty rate by 6.13 percentage points, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), as the think-tank argued that current social safety net programmes are plagued by inefficiencies such as errors in beneficiary selection.