Online filing of company tax returns mandatory from next year
From next year, company taxpayers in Bangladesh would require to file their returns online, said National Board of Revenue chairman Abdur Rahman Khan on Sunday...
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Govt considering reducing life imprisonment term: adviser
Bangladesh interim government home adviser Lieutenant General, Retd, Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday said the government is considering reducing the life imprisonment term to a reasonable period from 30 years aimed at releasing older prisoners.
New round of US-China trade talks kicks off in Madrid
China and the United States kicked off the latest round of trade talks on Sunday in Madrid, where they are set to thrash out their TikTok dispute and President Donald Trump鈥檚 promised hefty tariffs...
5 new services of integrated into BIDA鈥檚 OSS
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has expanded its online One Stop Service (OSS) platform with the inclusion of five new services from the Directorate of Registration...
DSE, CSE start week in red
Dhaka and Chattogram stock markets fell sharply on Sunday, with indices losing early gains as most share prices and turnover declined from the previous session...
Community Bank celebrates 6th anniversary
Community Bank Bangladesh PLC celebrated its 6th anniversary on Thursday with a function at a hotel in the capital...
bKash, Gulf Exchange build strategic partnership
Gulf Exchange, a premier financial services provider in Qatar, and bKash, the largest mobile financial services platform in Bangladesh, have announced a strategic partnership to improve cross-border remittance services for the Bangladeshi community in Qatar...
Dhaka Advertising School opens
Copyshop, an acclaimed platform for advertising and communication professionals in Bangladesh, has long been working to enhance creative skills in advertising and communications through structured and meaningful training for both current and future professionals...
ADN Telecom to install AI traffic signal
ADN Telecom Limited has signed MoUs with South Korea鈥檚 prominent company PBS Co Ltd and CND Motors Co Ltd to collaborate in sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy, and smart mobility solutions in Bangladesh...
ACI hygiene products factory achieves ISO certification
ACI Hygiene Products Factory has recently been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certification by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI)...
Pubali Bank, Delta Life鈥檚 bancassurance workshop held
Pubali Bank PLC and Delta Life Insurance Company Limited recently held a workshop titled 鈥榃orkshop on Bancassurance鈥� at the Syed Nazrul Islam Conference Hall of Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh...
Pragati Life approves 15pc cash dividend
The 25th annual general meeting (AGM) of Pragati Life Insurance PLC was held on Sunday...
ICAB and FRC sign MoU on DVS
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka to strengthen the verification of audited financial statements and audit reports submitted by public interest entities to the FRC...
Toffee users can pay from mobile balance
Toffee, Bangladesh鈥檚 leading digital entertainment platform powered by Banglalink, has introduced a new payment option that makes subscribing easier than ever. From now on, users can seamlessly purchase their Toffee subscriptions with Banglalink mobile balance, making the process more convenient and hassle-free...
Lack of proper planning, focus cost Tigers
After losing the opportunity to boost their net run rate against Hong Kong on Thursday, Bangladesh batter Towhid Hridoy defended their strategy by saying that they 鈥榮tuck to the demands of the situation鈥� and stated that they had played 鈥榮mart cricket鈥�.
Quantitative and qualitative reading
THE macroeconomic outlook of a country can be projected quantitatively through a large number of economic tools applied on a plethora of variables. However, the numbers do not always reflect the real truth hidden behind the projections. More importantly, the projections often make realistic assumptions, which hold a number of explanatory variables fixed at their...
Tectonic shift over the fault lines
On March 1, 2001, president George W Bush, speaking at the National Defence University in Washington DC, stated that the United States and Russia 鈥榓re not and must not be strategic adversaries.鈥� Yet, more than two decades later, as the 2024 US presidential elections approached, Republican nominee Donald Trump remarked during a televised interview on November...
Bridging the divide
WE LIKE to think that enough food means enough nutrition. It does not. Food is what we eat; nutrition is what our bodies use to grow, stay healthy and thrive. A plate full of staples such as rice does not guarantee that a child will grow tall or that a woman will lead a healthy life. In Bangladesh and beyond, this disconnect fuels a silent crisis: the food鈥搉utrition gap, eroding...
Gender equality and nutrition
BANGLADESH has made notable strides in health and development over the past decades, with declining poverty, improved access to services, and rising life expectancy. Yet nutritional indicators remain alarmingly poor. The country records one of the highest rates of low birthweight globally at 28 per cent, while anaemia affects nearly 29 per cent of women...
Govt, too, is indifferent towards road safety issues
PUBLIC transports remains fatally unsafe for passengers as the interim government has so far kept the sector off its reform agenda. The Passengers Welfare Association of Bangladesh on September 13 reported that at least 86,690 people died and 153,257 became wounded in 62,619 road accidents in 11 years. The number of fatalities, however shocking, is not surprising as...
Govt should tie all loose ends to meet timely textbook supply
THE National Curriculum and Textbook Board, meant to provide about 40 million students with textbooks on January 1, when the academic year begins, could print about 410.5 million copies of textbooks for the current academic year and complete the distribution by March, three months after classes began. The failure earned the board criticism. The board could run into...
Bangladesh foreign adviser joins emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Qatar
Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain attended a preparatory meeting in Doha on Sunday ahead of the Emergency Joint Arab-Islamic Summit, convened to address the recent Israeli airstrike on Qatar targeting Hamas leaders.
Three dengue patients die, 685 hospitalised in 24 hours
Three dengue patient died and 685 patients have been hospitalised in the country during the past 24 hours.
Festive polls in Feb if consensus reached: CA
Interim government chief adviser and National Consensus Commission chair Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday urged the politicians to reach consensus on the July National Charter鈥檚 execution method so that the 13th national elections, planned for...
July uprising Injured victim doubts getting justice over 鈥榝alse鈥� case
A July uprising injured victim on Sunday expressed doubt over getting justice regarding a 鈥榝alse case鈥� filed by a person in Dhaka in his name, claiming that he was actually injured in Chattogram and filed a case there in that connection...
Modhumoti Bank inaugurates relocated Barishal branch
Modhumoti Bank PLC inaugurated its relocated Barishal Branch at ARVS Bhaban, in the Chalk Bazar area under Kotowali Model Thana, Barishal, on Sunday, 14 September 2025, says a press release.
Earthquake shakes Bangladesh capital, other parts of country
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolted Dhaka and some other parts of Bangladesh on Sunday afternoon...
Newly elected members of DUCSU take charge
The newly elected members of Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union formally assumed their responsibilities on Sunday as their first meeting was held at the vice-chancellor鈥檚 office...
Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely across Bangladesh
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely at places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Sylhet and Chattogram divisions during 72 hours commencing at 9:00am on Sunday...
ICT submits report accusing Innu, Hanif, three others in July mass uprising killing case in Kushtia
The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday submitted its probe report accusing Awami League leader Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal 鈥� Jasad president Hasanul Huq Inu, and three others of committing crimes against humanity during the July 2024 mass uprising in Kushtia...