Bangladesh

Prof Yunus tells Vatican envoy Staff Correspondent: The Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See (Ambassador of Vatican) to Bangladesh, Kevin S. Randell, paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna here yesterday.During the meeting, the Chief Adviser and the Apostollic Nuncio of…

Staff Correspondent: The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) on Monday formed a committee to investigate the stock market involvement and activities by Saiful Alam, and Salman F Rahman — owners of controversial conglomerate S Alam Group and Beximco Group, respectively.The probe to determine potential market manipulations will also cover…

Staff Correspondent: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bangladesh has joined forces with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate the alleged smuggling of approximately Tk100,000 crore during the tenure of the Sheikh Hasina government. This major initiative aims to recover these illicit funds through a coordinated effort…

Staff Correspondent: Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunusyesterday reiterated his pledge to materialise the dream of the students to build a discrimination-free country.“For the dream they (students) sacrificed their lives, we must implement that dream. We have no way of getting out of it,” he said, addressing a view-exchange meeting…

Staff Correspondent: The overall inflation has decreased by 1.17 percent in August compared to July, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) report on Sunday.The BBS data showed that the overall inflation was 11.66 percent in July, and it went down 10.49 percent in August.Besides, food inflation came down to…

8000 already entered on Sept 2 Staff Correspondent: Local people’s representatives claimed that the brokers of the two countries are helping Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar to enter Bangladesh. They say that there are more than two hundred brokers on both sides of the Ukhia-Teknaf border. Rohingyas are entering Bangladesh through…

Staff Correspondent: Commerce and Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has said the government has a target to grow export earnings by 12.4 per cent in the current fiscal year, FY2024-25.“Export earnings in the current fiscal will not be lower than the previous fiscal due to the changed situation. Rather the earnings…

Staff Correspondent: The Bangladesh Chapter of the SAARC Journalist Forum has been formed, with Nasir Al Mamoon of the Daily Ajkal as President and Shiabur Rahman of The Financial Express as General Secretary. The committee was constituted during a meeting held on Saturday at the National Press Club in Dhaka,…

Staff Correspondent: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has updated the online return filing system for individual taxpayers to file returns online for the year 2024-2025. The updated online return filing system will be opened for taxpayers from September 9 (Monday), according to a press release from the NBR. It…