Income tax officials at a discussion here today vowed to deliver best services to taxpayers and enhance revenue earning to accelerate national uplift.
Read More »Wall Street set for slight bounce
Wall Street’s main indexes looked set for a bounce on Tuesday, a day after its biggest drop since the 1987 crash, as efforts to contain the rapidly-spreading coronavirus upended parts of the economy and dampened business sentiment.
Read More »Prime Minister launches new banknote of Taka 200 on Bangabandhu’s birth centenary
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday inaugurated a regular currency note of Tk 200 denomination alongside commemorative gold and silver coins on the occasion of birth century of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Read More »IPO subscription of Express Insurance opens April 13
The public subscription of Express Insurance is set to begin on April 13 for raising a fund worth Tk 260.79 million from the public.
Read More »DSEX sinks below 4,000-mark after five years
With fears of coronavirus dominating market sentiment, stocks tumbled further on Sunday amid incessant selling by investors to escape further losses.
Read More »RMG goods pile up at factories as buyers ask for shipment delay
Undelivered ready garments are piling up in the country’s readymade garment factories as a good number of buyers from European countries have asked their suppliers to delay the shipment of their products two to four weeks due to the global coronavirus outbreak.
Read More »BMBA seek BB intervention as few banks form special fund
The fund could be formed by banks’ own sources or through collecting liquidity from the central bank through repo of Treasury bills or bonds
Read More »Oil prices extend losses on price war, virus fallout
SINGAPORE, March 16, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Oil prices extended the gloom on Monday after a Saudi-Russian price war and an equities meltdown sparked by the coronavirus pandemic saw their biggest weekly losses in more than a decade.
Read More »China’s economy suffers heavy blow as epidemic paralyses activity
Urban investment and retail sales also fell sharply and for the first time on record, reinforcing views that the epidemic may have cut China’s economic growth in half in the first quarter.
Read More »NBR to enroll 0.15m new VAT payers in Mujib Year
National Board of Revenue (NBR) has set a target to register 0.15 million new VAT payers to raise the tally to 0.3 million in Mujib Year, reports BSS.
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