Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun today told the Jatiya Sangsad that government would distribute ID cards among salt farmers 

The decision could pose a challenge for PM Justin Trudeau as he heads into an election season likely to be fought in part over climate issues

A delegation of British-Bangladeshi businesspersons is exploring investment opportunities in Bangladesh

Total of 53 chemical storages will be built and all necessary safety measures in order to fight any fire hazards will be ensured

Planning Minister MA Mannan releases the data

Central banks in Britain and Japan will also announce their latest monetary policy decisions this week

The Prime Minister said this while winding up her speech on the supplementary budget for 2018-19 fiscal year in absence of Finance Minister

The move is the latest push by the Trump administration to redress what it considers to be unfair trading relationships with other countries

FBCCI president Sheikh Fazle Fahim says that This is a business friendly budget. It will accelerate the pace of development in the country

The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 101.94 points, or 0.39 per cent, to 26,106.77 on Thursday

Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI)  said the GDP growth target of 8.2 percent is achievable

The Hang Seng Index fell 0.72 percent, or 196.90 points to 27,111.56

The social safety net coverage has expanded in the budget increasing the number of beneficiaries to 78.71 lakh including from the existing 6,602,500

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says that the government’s main aim is to collect more income tax by broadening the tax base without increasing the tax rate

The proposed allocation for the PMO is Taka 711 crore higher in comparison to the revised budget for the FY 2018-2019

 There is no component in the budget for the 2019-2020 fiscal year which may cause a price spiral of essential commodities

In terms of sector-wise allocation, the transport sector received the highest ADP allocation of Taka 52,806 crore or 26.05 percent of the original ADP

Of the total food budget, Taka 3,614 crore has been earmarked for non-development part and Taka 889 crore for development purposes

Tk 3,664 crore has been proposed for operating expenditure and Tk 12,599 crore for development expenditure of railways ministry

AHM Mustafa Kamal says that South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation road connectivity projects 1 and 2 are being implemented in order to be connected with the global transport network

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday proposes raising the import duty to 25 percent from existing 10

The government has earmarks Taka 9000 crore as subsidies and incentives in the proposed budget while in the revised budget of 2018-19, the accumulated subsidies was Taka 8,070 crore

Tax revenue from non-NBR sources has been estimated at Taka 14,500 crore

Mustafa Kamal proposed fixing the price of every 10 sticks of low segment cigarette at Taka 37 and the supplementary duty rate to 55 percent

The new budget proposed to allocate Taka 100 crore for the training and employment of specific group of people

The minister proposed this incentive while placing the national budget of 2019-20 at parliament

Payment of pension in pensioner’s bank accounts through EFT has already been made to 27,000 pensioners, the budget speech has informed.

As the government wants to use the full potential of demographic dividend, an amount of Tk 100 crore has been earmarked in the proposed national budget

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on thursday proposed changes to duties on different products, which will result in increase and decrease in their prices

The existing tax rates for the RMG sector is remaining the same, which the manufacturers had wanted to be lowered down

The government aim is to get equity share of water these rivers

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in his budget speech on Thursday said the country can increase its…

The government has allocated Taka 100 crore in the proposed national budget for fiscal 2019-20 placed…

Here are some important features of the new national budget placed by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal…

Of the total Taka 1,621 crore, Taka 121 crore will be spent under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) and Taka 1,499 crore under non-development sector

In a historic move, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina started announcing the proposed budget in the Jatiya Sangsad on behalf of Finance Minister AHM Mustofa Kamal as he felt sick

The government has announced proposed allocation of Taka 1489,12 crore for youth and sports in their…

Kamal says the government needs to enhance growth in the industrial sector to hasten GDP growth and generate employments

The budget speech has hinted that our commitment is to achieve a growth rate of 10 percent by fiscal 2023-24, and maintain that rate until 2041