Previous Next The government is driven by its dream of pushing Bangladesh further on the path of prosperity and the finance minister is tailoring his first budget that will be “smart” and properly implementable. AHM Mustafa Kamal is set to propose the budget, likely to be Tk 5.25 trillion in size, for fiscal year 2019-20 […]

The Bangladesh Bank has rushed a meeting and formed a committee to find out the causes for the alarmingly high default loan and ways to curb it. The central bank called chief executives of seven banks that have had the highest default loan figures to the meeting on Tuesday at the behest of Finance Minister […]

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) office in Dhaka Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune The government set NBR’s revenue target at around 40% higher than the earnings of the outgoing fiscal year FY2017-18 The government is set to announce an ambitious revenue income, and unrealistic borrowing targets in the budget for the upcoming fiscal year (FY2019-20), to […]

File photo of Chittagong port Md Manik/Dhaka Tribune Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is scheduled to announce the budget in parliament on June 13 Aiming to invigorate the promising export sector, an ailing stock market, and cooling property markets, the upcoming budget is likely to announce a number of incentives to rekindle the business and […]

Japanese Dev Assistance: $2.5b for 4 projects Deal signed as Hasina, Abe hold official talks in Tokyo; discuss durable solution to Rohingya crisis Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe shake hands at the latter’s office in Tokyo yesterday. Hasina was given a guard of honour when she reached the office. Photo: […]

Previous Next Sheikh Hasina plans to take Bangladesh to the ranks of prosperous countries the way Japan has transformed into an industrially advanced nation from an agrarian economy. The prime minister spoke about the plan at a reception organised by expatriate Bangladeshis at New Otani Hotel in Tokyo on Tuesday. The Father of the Nation […]

The government has allocated Tk 1.69 billion to pay up the jute-mill workers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. The finance ministry on Monday allotted the amount, which will be deposited to the workers’ personal bank accounts through cheques, the Ministry of Textiles and Jute said in a statement. The fund will go towards the payment of wages […]

Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (Beza) signs a joint venture agreement with Sumitomo Corporation of Japan for the development of an exclusive economic zone for Japanese investors, at a Dhaka hotel on Sunday Dhaka Tribune According to the agreement, the Sumitomo Corporation will have 76% stake while the remaining 24% will be held by Beza Bangladesh […]