The country鈥檚 overall Purchasing Managers鈥� Index witnessed a gain of 0.8 points in September, recording a faster expansion rate at 59.1 points, according to the latest PMI report published jointly by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka and Policy Exchange Bangladesh on Tuesday...
Bangladesh is set to submit the Least Developed Country graduation progress report by October 31 to the United Nations Committee for Development Policy on a positive note, said a policy maker of the interim government on Monday...
President Donald Trump said Monday that a steep US tariff on imported heavy trucks would begin on November 1, postponing the date that he initially threatened to impose such duties...
Chief adviser鈥檚 special envoy Lutfey Siddiqi has held several bilateral meetings with Singaporean ministers where he provided first-hand updates on developments in Bangladesh and pursued areas of collaboration with both the public and private sectors...
The Asian Development Bank is likely to come up with a hefty support of around $2.5 billion in the next calendar year (2026) against a good number of projects in its continued efforts to strengthen further its relationship with Bangladesh...
The European Union will take a page out of US president Donald Trump鈥檚 tariff playbook on Tuesday with a plan to hike levies and slash quotas for imported steel 鈥� to protect the bloc鈥檚 struggling industry from cheap Chinese competition...
Bangladesh鈥檚 economy bounced back strongly in the latter half of FY25 driven by robust export growth, record remittance inflows and an increase in foreign exchange reserves following disruptions in the first half of the year, according to a new World Bank report released on Tuesday...
The World Bank on Tuesday said that poverty had worsened in Bangladesh as the rate climbed to 21.2 per cent in the financial year of 2024-25 from 20.5 per cent in FY20023-24.
Private sector credit growth in Bangladesh dropped to a record low of 6.35 per cent in August 2025, the lowest in more than 23 years, signaling deepening distress across the economy...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority is set to hold a series of government-to-business meetings with Turkish conglomerates on October 7 and 8 to attract fresh investment in Bangladesh...
Farmers and officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension are expecting a bumper yield of winter vegetables in Khulna this season thanks to favourable weather and timely farming support...
Iran鈥檚 parliament on Sunday approved a plan to remove four zeros from the national currency, the rial, which has sharply depreciated as the country grapples with renewed sanctions...
Italy has appealed to Washington and the European Commission in an attempt to dissuade the US from imposing a punitive tariffs on pasta imports, a deeply unpopular measure among producers...
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To accelerate the recovery of evaded revenue and enhance collection by preventing tax evasion, the National Board of Revenue instructed all field-level tax zones to strengthen the activities of their respective Intelligence and Investigation Cells.
