The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to further strengthen and expedite its Alternation Dispute Resolution (ADR) process to increase revenue collection through settling the revenue related cases pending with various courts for years, reports UNB. The revenue collecting authority has taken…

Revenue earnings from the country’s land ports maintained a steady rise in fiscal year 2016-17 (FY17) as these ports earned Tk 100 crore, up by Tk 17 crore or 20.44 per cent from Tk 83 crore of the fiscal year 2015-16, reports BSS. “Revenue earnings from the land ports have been maintaining…

AFP, TOKYO:  Asian stocks mostly rose yesterday, extending a global equities rally driven by growing optimism over a US tax reform plan and as investors…

AFP, SEOUL:  The heir to the Samsung empire faces the verdict in his corruption trial Friday, which threatens to leave the world's biggest smartphone…

The US has imposed sanctions on a dozen Russian and Chinese companies and individuals it accuses of helping North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, reports BBC . It comes after the UN Security Council, including Russia and China, voted for further sanctions against Pyongyang. The US Treasury…

After showing upward trends in the previous two sessions, stock markets returned to red zone yesterday as issues across both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock…

AFP, DOHA: Qatar has approved a law limiting domestic staff to a maximum of 10 hours' work a day, the first such protection for thousands of household maids, nannies and cooks in the emirate. The "Domestic Employment Law" also orders employers to pay staff wages at the end of each month…

AFP, SAN FRANCISCO:  Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, and Google, the internet’s predominant search engine, are teaming up in an attempt to challenge Amazon’s growing dominance in online shopping. The deal will make the retailer’s products available on Google Express,…

AFP, SHANGHAI:  The Hong Kong-listed arm of China’s  second-largest telecoms carrier Unicom plans to raise up to $11.3 billion by  selling shares to its parent firm, the company has announced. The announcement, in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange late  Tuesday, comes…