Private sector credit growth in Bangladesh slowed to 6.95 per cent in May 2025, down from 7.5 per cent in April, reflecting weakening business confidence and tighter lending conditions, according to Bangladesh Bank data...
Bangladesh Bank has decided to launch asset quality reviews of 11 more private commercial banks as part of its effort to uncover financial irregularities and take informed decisions about these banks鈥� future...
Mastercard recently hosted a high-impact workshop titled 鈥楴ext Generation Analytics, Insights & Cyber Security Solutions鈥� under 鈥業nnovation X Impact鈥� theme, said a press release...
The Public-Private Partnership Authority of Bangladesh on Monday organised a divisional PPP conference and workshop at Hotel Naz Garden in Bogura, said a press release...
WHEN we speak of advancing teacher preparation and professional development, the role of 鈥榯eaching observation鈥� deserves renewed attention. Teaching observation involves one teacher observing another鈥檚 classroom practice, followed by a structured discussion. This is not an exercise in fault-finding, but rather a reflective process focused on pedagogical...
The increase in advance tax aiming to recover the revenue lost to VAT evasion could ultimately lead to consumer price hike and further inflationary pressure, said the experts.
Breathtaking, swirling, multicolored galaxies and star-forming regions were revealed Monday in the first images of deep space captured by the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile.
The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh is preparing guidelines to allow the private universities to offer PhD programme.
Deputy foreign minister of Sri Lanka Arun Hemachandra has expressed his country鈥檚 keenness to strengthen relations with Bangladesh鈥檚 private sector...
The Venture Capital and Private Equity Association of Bangladesh has urged the government to treat investment in venture capital funds as an allowable investment for tax rebate...
DESPITE having several sources of revenue and a dual system of tax collection (direct-indirect), the majority of tax revenue is collected through indirect tax, called value-added tax, regulated聽by the Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act 2012. The income tax, which is governed by the Income Tax Ordinance of 1984, includes corporate taxes, taxes...
A group of private university students on Wednesday protested at a 15 per cent income tax on private universities demanding immediate withdrawal of the tax...
In recognition of outstanding contribution to wildlife conservation and research, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change officially nominated two individuals and two organisations in four categories for the National Wildlife Conservation Award 2025, said a press release...
Glenrich International School, Satarkul, has recently secured 1st prize in the engineering category at the STEM Innovation League 2025 held at American International School Dhaka...
The Hubei-Bangladesh Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Exchange Conference 2025 was held at the International Conference Hall of Daffodil International University at Daffodil Smart City of Savar in Dhaka on Sunday...
The Private University Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on Thursday announced committees in 19 private universities...
Two Appellate Division judges, in the full verdict on the 16th Amendment review, have accused High Court judge Md Ashraful Kamal of judicial misconduct for making derogatory and politically motivated remarks about late president Ziaur Rahman, terming his language vulgar, indecent, and a violation of judicial conduct..
Deposits in 10 well-performing private commercial banks surged by Tk 32,000 crore in the three months ending in March 2025, as depositors moved their funds away from financially weak institutions amid growing fears of collapse, persistent fund shortages, and distrust in bank management...
The government in its Tk 7,90,000 crore national budget for financial year 2025鈥�26 has proposed both reduction of VAT, tax and duties on a number of items, while their increase on some others.
BRAC Bank will partner with DEG Impulse, Germany, to establish the first-ever SME Innovation Lab in the Bangladesh banking sector...
A people鈥檚 court on Friday ordered an immediate suspension of all activities related to the under-construction Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road through Hatirjheel and Panthakunja Park in the capital Dhaka.
The National Board of Revenue has extended the deadline till June 19 for submitting VAT returns online through the Integrated VAT Administration System for the tax period of May, 2025.
Sri Lanka鈥檚 leftist government said Tuesday it was selling a failed hotel project, marking its first privatisation move in line with an IMF bailout...
The interim government has started a procedure for scrapping the costly and controversial project of constructing an elevated highway connecting Mithamain and Karimganj upazilas in Kishoreganj...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled that products, including edible oil, sugar, cement, and iron, manufactured in the country鈥檚 economic zones are not exempted from value-added tax, overturning a High Court verdict that had declared such taxation illegal...
NEARLY six months have passed since the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement began a sit-in inside the partially destroyed Panthakunja Park, one of the capital鈥檚 last parks, calling for a halt to the construction of a section of the Dhaka elevated expressway from the Film Development Corporation to the Plassey crossing. Protesters say that the construction of the elevated...
More than five months on from the start of a sit-in programme against the construction of a Dhaka Elevated Expressway link road through the Panthakunja Park at Karwan Bazar in the capital Dhaka, conservationists are yet to receive any response from...
The country鈥檚 private sector urged the government on Saturday for immediate diplomatic response to settle tariff issues with the United States...
The 23rd annual general meeting and the 38th board meeting of Agrani Exchange House Private Limited, a subsidiary of Agrani Bank PLC based in Singapore, were held at a hotel located on Kitchener Road in Singapore recently...
THE situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there...