Income-expenditure gap of city and village increasing
Mahfuja Mukul: The gap between urban and rural income and expenditure has widened in the last five years. Earlier, the difference in household income between urban and rural areas was Tk 8,000, but now it has…
Read More »Bangladesh’s total labor force is 7.36 crore: BBS
Staff Correspondent: At present, the total labor force in the country is 7 crore 36 lakh 90 thousand people, which is almost half of the total population (16 crores 98 lahks). Males constitute 48.25 percent and…
Read More »President seeks India’s more effective steps to solve Rohingya crisis
Staff Correspondent: President Mohammed Shahabuddin yesterday urged India to take “more effective” steps to ensure a safe and dignified repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their Rakhine state homeland in Myanmar.He came up with the…
Read More »Bangladesh can achieve its growth aspirations with right set of policies
Says WB President Industry Desk: As a long-standing partner, World Bank Group President David Malpass has said that they will support Bangladesh as it navigates a challenging global environment on its way to reaching upper-middle-income status…
Read More »Depositors withdrew Tk 18000 cr from Islami Bank in a year
Mahfuz Emran: In 2022, depositors have withdrawn Tk 17,783 crore from the private sector Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited. As a result, the deposit amount of the bank has decreased in the last year. The bank disbursed…
Read More »Laundered money not coming back even after tax exemption
Mahfuja Mukul: Tax exemptions in the current budget to bring back money laundered abroad have not yielded any results. In the 9 months (July-March) till last March, not a single person took that chance and not…
Read More »Historic May Day today
Staff Correspondent: The historic May Day will be observed today in the country and elsewhere across the world in a befitting manner.The day is being observed across the globe since 1886 commemorating the supreme sacrifices of…
Read More »e-commerce market will rise to $10 b in 2026
Facebook, Google must open office in Bangladesh Industry Desk: Bangladesh has a big potential in digital economy but it cannot seize the opportunity for absence of adequate policy, economists, policymakers and IT experts observed on Saturday.Tech…
Read More »Cyclone ‘Mocha’ may hit Bangladesh’s coast at 180 mph
Staff Correspondent: A cyclone is likely to generate in the Bay of Bengal between 9 and 11 May. It is named ‘Mocha’. The cyclone is expected to hit the coast of Bangladesh between May 11 and…
Read More »Dollar crisis-inflation mainchallenge for next budget
Mahfuz Emran: It is known that the national budget is being prepared with the aim of achieving a growth rate of 7.5 percent for the new financial year 2023-24. However, the World Bank and Asian Development…
Read More »2-month ban on Hilsa fishing to end today
Staff Correspondent: Fishermen are set to resume hilsa fishing as a two-month ban on catching, selling and transportation of the national fish will be ended on Sunday midmight.The fishermen are busy now for preparing nets and…
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