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Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has included five more services with its online One Stop Service (OSS) centre to ensure ease and swift services for the investors in the country.

He made the remarks while addressing a virtual conference titled “Rural to Global E-Commerce Policy Conference 2021” organized by the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB) on Saturday

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has withdrawn advance tax from imported unrefined soybean and palm oil.

Banks usually charge account maintenance fees twice a year, but the central bank instructed the lenders to charge the fee only once from now, for account holders with up to Tk10 lakh in deposits in any savings account

Speakers at a webinar of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) today mentioned that supply of essential commodities is adequate and there is no possibility of price hike during the holy month of Ramadan.

BIDA under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) last month issued new guidelines on outward remittance repatriation for payment, allowing repatriation of outward remittance up to 6% without prior approval of BIDA

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today said that the areas and sectors which are associated with the lives and livelihood of common people like rural infrastructures, agriculture and health sector would get priority in the next budget for FY22 in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic situation.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has identified “external shocks and the possibility of slower global economic recovery” as the main challenges to Bangladesh’s economic rebound amid the Covid-9 pandemic.

Consumer spending has increased remarkably ahead of Ramadan this year amid a rising trend in prices of six key essentials including rice, edible oil, sugar, chicken meat, milk and fish.

The government is developing the country’s first industrial park for electrical and light engineering product manufacturers at a cost of Tk 300 crore in Munshiganj, which could herald a beginning to bring the highly scattered and unorganised industries under a single platform.