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Traders will be able to pay value-added tax using debit and credit cards of 27 commercial banks as the National Board of Revenue is set to introduce VAT payment through the cards under the e-payment platform of the VAT Online Project.

The Bangladesh Bank on Sunday extended the deadline for disbursement of Tk 5,000 crore in refinance loans meant for the agriculture sector by three months amid slow progress in disbursement.

In the wake of peoples’ feeling the pinch of skyrocketed onion prices in the last few days, state-run Trading Corporation Bangladesh (TCB) today started online onion sale programme in the city to enable consumers to buy onion at Taka 36 per kg.

Investors have been reluctant to invest in mutual funds despite a bullish trend on the market in recent weeks as they lacked confidence in the ailing sector.

Imports from India make up almost 90% of Bangladesh’s shortfall

The government will pay an estimated Tk 2,256.7 billion as interest on loans in the next three fiscals including the current one.

Donors have agreed on the replenishment in excess of $4 billion for the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asian Development Fund (ADF) 13 and Technical Assistance Special Fund (TASF) 7, for a four-year period from 2021 to 2024. The total size of the replenishment represents a 7 percent increase in comparison …

Speakers at a conference today underscored the need for using Japanese management style ‘Breakthrough Thinking’ to raise productivity in industry and commerce.

Asian markets were mixed Friday as investors struggled to reignite the rally that has characterised much of the past six months, owing to a stuttering economic recovery and US lawmakers’ failure to agree a new stimulus.

Stocks on both the bourses witnessed an upward trend in the early trading on Wednesday as optimistic investors showed their appetite on sector-wise issues.