Dhaka May 9, 2026, 6:37 pm
Dhaka Steel Works Limited was nationalised in 1972 following the order of then President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Later, in 1994, BNP government declared the factory as pay-off and shut it down. In 2016, the resumption process
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has suggested examining the seismic resistance of the proposed deep-sea port in Matarbari as Bangladesh is vulnerable to earthquakes
Sukuk means Islamic securities that are often translated as 'Islamic bonds.'
12-hour time difference puts Beijing ahead in terms of actually implementing the tariffs
Santos and Kris last year had carried out a 2D (two dimensional) seismic survey in 3,220 LKM (line kilometre) areas and identified some prospects that wooed the JV to carry out the 3D seismic survey
The disbursed amount of foreign assistance for the country's development works was US$ 24.16 billion from various countries and donor agencies from 2008-'09 fiscal year to 2016-'17 fiscal year
The global lending agency has made the projection in its 'Global Economic Prospects (GEP)' in June 2018.
The flow of inward remittance rose to $14.98 billion in FY 2017-18 from $12.77 billion a year ago, according to the Bangladesh Bank's (BB) provisional data.
The implementation rate of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the last fiscal year (2017-’18) hit the record 93.71 percent with an expenditure of Tk 147,703 crore against 87 percent in the 2016-’17 fiscal year
The IDA has become a part of development history of Bangladesh. The IDA is a part of the World Bank that helps the world's poorest countries. Overseen by 173 shareholder nations, IDA aims to reduce poverty by providing loans
According to a new rule issued on June 28, the customs authorities will accept applications from the businesses for appointing AEO
The decision was disclosed at a meeting of the bankers, held at the Bangladesh Bank (BB) headquarters in Dhaka on Monday with BB Governor Fazle Kabir in the chair.
To ultimately build a corruption-free society, we should bring up our children properly. It will be more effective to infuse good moral values in them by having teachers recite a sentence about morality, daily, at the beginni
state-run factory workers will be paid a minimum wage of Tk 8,300 and a maximum wage of Tk 11,200, up from Tk 4,150 and Tk 5,600 respectively
World Bank has stopped approving projects for Myanmar as part of its move to beef up pressures for taking back its Rohingya people from Bangladesh in a peaceful way
The NBR collected an aggregate Tk 2.05 trillion worth of tax revenue in FY 2017-18 against the revised target of Tk 2.25 trillion.
From July 01, all the existing businesses will have to use the new electronic BIN (e-BIN) for carrying out export-import and other business activities. So far, some 110,000 businesses obtained the nine-digit e-BIN out of the
Considering a huge funding requirement of the region; it is important to raise finances through different mechanisms for lending to projects which are vital for building infrastructure and poverty alleviation through faster e
It is high time for the country to formulate effective strategies to face the challenges of graduation, as it will gradually lose preferential trade opportunities
Bangladesh and China inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for conducting the study when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Dhaka in October 2016
