Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Zaved Akhtar on Wednesday opined that the proposed national budget for the 2025-26 financial year will not increase confidence level for enhancing foreign direct investment...
Foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Tuesday called upon Sri Lanka to increase its import of pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh, highlighting the strength, global standards, and competitiveness of the country’s pharmaceutical sector...
The proposed national budget for the 2025–26 financial year lacked the structural boldness and holistic approach needed to bring Bangladesh out of its current economic distress, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue, a local think tank, on Tuesday.
The government has set the gross domestic product growth target at 5.5 per cent for the 2025-2026 financial year.
The government has proposed raising the excise duty exemption limit on bank deposits from Tk 1 lakh to Tk 3 lakh for the 2024-25 fiscal year.
The government has proposed to borrow Tk 1.04 lakh crore from the banking system in the upcoming financial year 2025-26, marking a 5-per cent increase from the revised bank borrowing target of Tk 99,000 crore for the current financial year.
The interim government has targeted to bring down inflation to 6.5 per cent in the 2025–26 financial year despite the current inflation level remaining above 9 per cent.
The government has widened the corporate tax gap between listed and non-listed companies from the existing 5 per cent to 7.5 per cent in the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2025–26.
Bangladesh interim government finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday announced the new national budget with an overall expenditure outlay of Tk 7.9 lakh crore.
Bangladesh interim government finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has started placing a Tk 7,90,000 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2025–26 which is 12.7 per cent of the GDP.
Foreign investment does not pose a threat to national security, said Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, executive chairman of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority and the Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority...
