The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), in an immediate response on Thursday to the proposed budget, expressed appreciation for the reduction of taxes on some essential items. However,…

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed shock and disappointment over the 'unethical' provision in the newly announced budget that allows the whitening of black money…

The government’s decision to increase an additional 5 percent supplementary duty on mobile services will create further burden on the telecom industry and the mobile subscribers…

Following the High Court order to retain a 56 percent quota in first to fourth-class government jobs, students from Dhaka University and other institutions, along with frontliners…

The government plans to raise around 85.4% of its domestic funding to meet the budget deficit through borrowing from the banking sector. In the proposed budget for FY 2024-25, Finance…

If Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali gets his budget proposals through the following items will be costlier during the financial year starting July 1. Cigarettes: A supplementary…

A court here today ordered to appoint official receiver for immovable properties of former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed, his wife Jissan Mirza and their three daughters. Dhaka…

Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has proposed new taxes on the import of cars by the Members of Parliament (MPs).  The proposal is announced during the presentation of…

The government has proposed to allocate Tk 38,819 cr in the Primary and Mass Education sector in the national budget for FY 2024-25. Finance Minister AH Mahmood Ali proposed the allocation…

The government is hoping to containinflation at 6.5 percent in the next fiscal year (FY25) with the help of thepolicies and strategies adopted by the government. "We are expecting…

The mobile phone SIM-enabled telecommunication services will be costlier as the supplementary duty on the services was raised to 20 percent from 15 percent in the proposed National…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow could arm countries with a view to attacking Western targets. Mr Putin made the statement while criticising the West's delivery…

Ozempic is big business in China. Last year, the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk doubled its sales of the diabetes drug in the country to almost $700m – 5 percent of…

UN Secretary General António Guterres called coal, oil and gas corporations the “godfathers of climate chaos” who had distorted the truth and deceived the public…