NBR proceeding with appointment of TRP to find new taxpayers
Staff Correspondent: National Board of Revenue (NBR) wants to find taxpayers who have taxable income and Tax Identification Number (TIN) across the country. For this the organization will appoint Income Tax Return Preparer (TRP). Meanwhile, TRP…
Read More »Uncertainty over new textbooks on time
Printing stopped for lacking of money Zarif Mahmud: Handing over new books to students on the first day of the year has become a tradition over the past few years. Although it has started falling apart…
Read More »92,595 students getGPA-5 in HSC and equivalent exams
Staff Correspondent: A total of 92,595 students got the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) in the HSC and equivalent examinations 2023 under 11 education boards, which was 1,76,282 in 2022.According to the result published here yesterday,…
Read More »Govt paying debt by borrowing fund
Mahfuz Emran: Revenue collection is not increasing despite the increase in expenditure. To meet the deficit, the government has to take loans from domestic and foreign sources. The debt status of the government from domestic and…
Read More »9 m SME entrepreneurs provide 24.5 m jobs
DCCI president calls for increased support to enhance technical capacity in SMEs Special Correspondent: There are about nine million entrepreneurs in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector in the country. They have created employment opportunities…
Read More »Speakers for nature-based solutions and local adaptation
Building resilience in Sundarbans Staff Correspondent: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised a national workshop, focusing on the integration of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) and Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) in the world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans,…
Read More »E-cigarettes and vaping should be banned
Staff Correspondent: Heat-not-burn and e-cigarettes or vaping is a new weapon to get the young generation addicted, which is a serious threat to them.Tobacco companies are cleverly marketing these products to the youth. Therefore, to protect…
Read More »$3.5b goes out of country yearly for healthcare
700,000 Bangladeshis go abroad for treatments Rafiqul Islam Azad: Around 700,000 Bangladeshis seek treatment abroad every year, while about $3.5 billion exits the country to cover healthcare expenses for these patients. The annual per capita expenditure…
Read More »Antibiotics lose 82 pc effectiveness
Mahfuja Mukul: Antibiotics widely used in the country have lost up to 82 percent effectiveness this year. Five years ago, it was 71 percent. As a result, the ineffectiveness rate of this life-saving drug increased by…
Read More »How do NBFIs collect deposits?
Farhad Chowdhury: In the recently passed ‘Finance Company Act-2023’, restrictions have been imposed on the collection of deposits from an individual up to a maximum of Tk 50 lakhs in a single name, a maximum of…
Read More »63 pc of defaulted loans with 10 banks
Staff Correspondent: There are now 61 banks in the country. However, more than 63 percent of the total non-performing loans of the entire banking sector are in 10 banks. The list includes five private and five…
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