Business-Economy

NBR to digitise its activities under master plan

Staff Correspondent: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken a master plan to digitise all of its activities to ensure that digital services reach the taxpayers. “In future all

80mw solar plant planned in Padma Bridge area aligned with renewable vision

Staff Correspondent: North-West Power Generation Company – an enterprise of the Bangladesh Power Development Board enterprise – is now set to build an 80MW solar power plant in the Padma

Goat and veggies farming changes lot of Satkhira’s poor women

Mir Khairul Alam from Satkhira: Despite several natural disasters like dam collapse, salinity and cyclone, many women of coastal areas in Satkhira district have changed their lot by rearing goats

Foreign loan costs to rise after LDC graduation: Fahmida Khatun

Staff Correspondent: Fahmida Khatun, executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has said that Bangladesh will face higher costs for foreign loans after graduating from the Least Developed

RMG sees double-digit growth in major markets

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh’s apparel exports to major markets have achieved double-digit growth over the first eight months of the current fiscal year, thanks to the growing demand by the brands

Govt’s move to slash power subsidies: Phasing out costly plants, pushing renewable

Staff Correspondent: To address the growing financial burden of subsidies in the power sector, the Ministry of Finance has put forward recommendations to lower electricity generation costs by phasing out