A weeklong Income Tax Fair, 2018, will kick off in Dhaka and other divisional headquarters across the country from tomorrow (Tuesday). Being held for the ninth consecutive year, the aim of the fair is to provide better services to taxpayers and include more taxpayers in the tax net. “The National…

Major oil producers meet in Abu Dhabi yesterday  to consider reverting to output cuts after a sharp slide in crude prices revived fears of a 2014-style crash. Oil prices shed a fifth of their value in just one month after surging to a four-year high in early October, driven by a combination of…

Thg Asian Development Bank’s Bangladesh Resident Mission yesterday organised a ‘Business Opportunities Seminar’ at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in a bid to deliver better development results. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed inaugurated the event as the chief…

Sneakers on a popular Chinese e-commerce platform look like Adidas, but are branded “Ababis”. Underwear resembling Calvin Klein are called…

In shorts and wearing shoes but no socks, Mauricio Garcia could pass for a tourist as he strolls around Old Havana. But he’s as Cuban as a Cohiba…

Stocks witnessed upward trend yesterday as major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges were found rising trend with higher activities of…

After years of low, low prices, fed by near-zero interest rates in a convalescing economy, Americans are waking up to costlier consumer living. Everyday household staples like diapers, toothpaste, shampoo and dishwashing liquid—not to mention soft drinks, cookies, chocolate, cat litter and autos—have…

A Chinese agricultural official Saturday called for closer agricultural cooperation among China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) in Beijing. China will work to double its agricultural trade with Japan and ROK to over 30 billion US dollars in the next 10 years, said Chinese minister of agriculture…

Vietnam aims to lower its 2019 budget deficit to 3.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) from the 3.7-percent target set for this year. The budget plan was approved on Friday by the National Assembly of Vietnam, the country’s top legislature, during its ongoing sixth session of the 14th tenure.…

Novoair, one of the country’s leading private airlines, has started its sales office in Kolkata to ensure better services to the passengers, the company said in a press statement. Toufique Hasa , deputy high commissioner of Bangladesh to Kolkata, inaugurated the office on Friday.  Mofizur…

The National Board of Revenue (NBR), Chattogram has set a target to earn revenue of over Tk 600 crore from tax fair beginning tomorrow at GEC convention centre in the Chattogram. NBR Chattogram chapter is organising the fair with a view to encouraging people to pay taxes regularly. City Mayor AJM Nasir…

The British economy defied the headwinds of Brexit uncertainty to record improved GDP growth over the third quarter of this year, according to figures released on Friday. The British economy grew at 0.6 percent over the third quarter (August-October), a 50-percent jump in the rate of growth over the…