World Bank Vice President for South Asia Hartwig Schafer has reaffirmed the bank’s commitment to the country’s resilient and inclusive recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) today honoured nine firms for paying the highest amount of value-added tax (VAT) in their respective sectors in 2019-20 fiscal year.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today handed over the National Human Development Report 2021 to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which was prepared to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 50 years Bangladesh's independence.

Women empowerment, to me, means to be able to recognise your own power and capabilities regardless of the barriers that come your way. The empowerment should be attained from self-confidence and resilience and the mindset that failure is instrumental part of success.

PrimaDollar, supported by its liaison office in Bangladesh and its team in Dhaka, has now signed agreements with four Bangladeshi factory groups, which have agreed to pilot the new “Factory Social Score” system.

The government has selected 176 businessmen to award them with the 'Commercially Important Person' (CIP) status for their outstanding contribution on merchandise export and as a recognition to their roles in different trade bodies.

The Dhaka stocks bounced back today just after a day's correction.

Hartwig Schafer, vice president for South Asia region of the World Bank, today visited the footwear microenterprises cluster at Bhairab in Kishoreganj under the sustainable enterprise project (SEP), co-financed by the global lender and implemented by the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF).

Local pharmaceuticals company Incepta Pharmaceuticals has won the 'Green Factory Award 2020' given by the labour and employment ministry.

The HSBC in Bangladesh has structured the country’s first ever sustainability linked loan targeting the fifth sustainable development goal of gender equality, for DBL Group, one of the largest knit garment manufacturers and exporters of Bangladesh.

Brac Bank has signed an agreement with Link3 Technologies Ltd to deploy the bank's payment gateway in online platform of the IT solutions provider.

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) today gave go-ahead to the Pubali Bank's perpetual bond worth Tk 500 crore.

Alif Industries plans to raise funds of Tk 200 crore through issuing shares.

The stock market index crossed 7,000 points again after nine working days amid the optimism of further rise.

Standard Bank Ltd recently won the “Business Transformation Award-2021” in the sustainable business category at the “Global Sustainability Leadership Award 2021”, organised by the World Marketing Congress.

The commemoration of the Bangabandhu centenary year and the celebrations centred around Bangladesh’s fifty years as an independent nation state will be reaching their conclusion at the end of the calendar year, 2021.

With Bangladesh passing 50 years of its independence, it aspires to become an upper-middle income country 10 years from now, and a developed nation by 2041. In his keynote at the conclusion of the three-day Annual BIDS Conference on Development, Economist Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud says these are inspirational goals and suggests caution when crossing the pathways through which, by trial and error, the country shall reach there.

Developing countries like Bangladesh can take advantage of the apparel industry as an indirect launching platform to help women transition from jobs to careers and to bring more women into the labour markets by adopting complementary policies, experts said.

The USA-based subscription streaming service and production company Netflix has got the Value-Added Tax (VAT) identification number from the National Board of Revenue (NBR).

Bangladesh Bank Executive Director Md Masud Biswas has been appointed as the head of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) in status of deputy governor on a contractual basis.