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No strategy yet to bring laundered money back

No strategy yet to bring laundered money back

A draft strategy was formulated two years back, but it is still awaiting final approval

Despite strong summer start, Europe's aviation industry frets

Despite strong summer start, Europe's aviation industry frets

The summer period is shaping up to be by far the best since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis that has severely affected the airline industry since 2020.

Japan ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki hands over the award to businessman Abdul Haque

Japan honours Abdul Haque with ‘Order of the Rising Sun’

Abdul Haque is the 13th Bangladesh national and the second businessman in the country to receive the decoration from the government of Japan

Combination of logos of DSE (L) and CSE

Stocks maintain gaining streak

Country's both the bourses, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) today witnessed an upward trend like earlier as investors continued their buying spree on large-cap issues ...

Padma Bridge from the Zajira end

Padma Bridge: Just a few miles home

It has been quite a long time since I went to our village to visit my mother. While talking to her over the phone recently, my nearly 80-year-old mother seemed rather anxious, asking me when I would ...

Source tax holds up double taka of net profit

Income tax Source tax holds up double taka of net profit

“If there is a provision to refund the tax at source, then why do you collect it? It should be eliminated.”

In this picture taken on 6 March 2022, industrial effluents enter a canal that leads to the Shitolokkhya River in Narayangong

Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh’s garment-driven economic boom

In the half-century since a devastating independence war left its people facing starvation, Bangladesh has emerged as an often unheralded economic success story

Maria Fernanda Garza

ICC elects first woman chair

The 212th World Council of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the world business organization was held in Mexico on 14 June 2022.

Fiber Reinforced Polymer

Research aims to improve joint connection technologies for lightweight and high-strength structures

Because of its lightweight and high strength, applications for Fiber Reinforced Polymer are increasing, such as its use in the repair and reinforcement of existing buildings, pedestrian bridges and ...

Selim Raihan

Interview: Selim Raihan 'The government didn't keep its own word in the budget'

Poverty is a big problem, there is the problem of unemployment, and disparity is increasing. These matters are discussed, but there is no guideline in the budget of how to emerge from this, says ...

An employee counts Indian rupee currency notes inside a private money exchange office in New Delhi

India rupee hits record low, 10-yr bond yields hits over 3-yr high

Indian rupee dropped to a lifetime low while the country's benchmark 10-year bond yield rose to its highest in more than three years as investor concerns over faster rate increases in the United ...

Budget 2022-23

Budget 2022-23: More business-friendly than people-friendly

While the finance minister has acknowledged the pressure of inflation in the new budget, he has not shown any means of relief

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Syrian president accuses US of using dollar to commit global ‘robbery’

As long as the dollar is a global currency and continues to be settled through U.S. banks or what is called the American Federal Reserve, you are under the authority of this dollar, said the Syrian ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader

New budget to revive post-Covid economy, hopes Obaidul Quader

The issues of lower income group and middle-class people have been highlighted in the budget, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader

A saleswoman displays a gold necklace to a customer inside a jewellery showroom in Mumbai, India 18 April 2018.

Gold businesses get waiver on advance tax

“I propose to withdraw advance tax on import of gold with a view to encouraging import of gold through formal channel and discouraging gold smuggling in the country,” he said.

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