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Mahfuz Emran: Institutional investors will be given loans from the Capital Market Stabilization Fund (CMSF). Regulatory body Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has taken initiatives to increase liquidity in the capital market. According to BSEC sources, instructions will be issued in this regard soon.Not everyone will get loans from…

Staff Correspondent: The number of new Business Identification Numbers (BINs) is constantly increasing. Also, the number of VAT return submissions is increasing. Mainly due to increase in awareness among traders, both registrations and returns are increasing. Compared to 2019-20 fiscal year, 2021-22 fiscal year, the number of registered business establishments…

Staff Correspondent: The government has started selling of meat, milk and eggs in the city as the consumers can buy these products at cheaper rate during the holy Ramadan.“The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has initiated a month-long marketing programme to assist the traders, producers and supply chain concerned as…

Cell cos cheating customers Zarif Mahmud with Mahfuz Emran: Smart Bangladesh has recently been announced by the government. Before this there was Digital Bangladesh. But be it digital and smart, Bangladesh should be unique to be the first from the last in terms of mobile internet speed. Some time ago,…

Staff Correspondent: The country’s stock market has been in recession for more than a year due to the global crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war and the rise and volatility of the dollar. Common investors are constantly losing their invested capital due to falling prices. Investors are comparing the current…

Eggs not an affordable Industry Desk: Eggs are not an affordable quality protein source any more, as price per dozen has soared to Tk150 in the kitchen markets across Dhaka.Lower-income families have already been cutting consumption of chicken and meat due to unusually high prices, say consumer rights groups. Now,…

Mahfuz Emran: The flow of foreign loans has increased for development work under different projects. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved 17 development projects in just two meetings. Where 12 projects depend on foreign loans. Foreign loans of Tk 12,350 crore have been taken under these…

Staff Correspondent: Surplus gas from Bhola fields is likely to be shipped to factories in Dhaka, Gazipur and Mymensingh’s Bhaluka by early June this year in compressed natural gas (CNG) form as the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has nodded a proposal regarding this matter, said Petrobangla Chairman Zanendra Nath Sarker.“The…

Staff Correspondent: Foreign banks operating in Bangladesh have fulfilled 100% of their annual agri-loan disbursement targets in the first eight months of the current fiscal year.According to data from the Bangladesh Bank, eight foreign-owned banks were given a target to disburse a total of Tk771 crore in agri-loans in the…