Representatives from the brokerage and merchant banking sectors reiterated their recommendations to foster a vibrant capital market during a meeting with the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Sunday (18 June). The meeting, chaired by DSE Acting Managing Director M Shaifur Rahman Mazumdar, highlighted concerns regarding the proposed income tax act’s impact on new investor encouragement,…
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According to the Novosti UZEX newspaper , the volume of sales of the domestic exchange market of non-ferrous metals in January-May 2023 exceeded 45.6 thousand tons. The largest volume in the sales structure falls on cathode copper, whose share is 69%. The following positions are occupied by zinc with a share of 23% and copper rod with…
Mohammad Kabir Hossain learned the nuts and bolts of bus building from his guru Ladla at the Ryad Engineering Workshop in Savar. Although Ladla is an expert in building AC buses, he also taught Kabir how to build non-AC buses and minibuses. “In 2000, at the age of 20, I joined the workshop as a…
The elections were held in an overall orderly and festive atmosphere, said Kazi Habibul Awal, the chief election commissioner After a day-long vote in Khulna and Barisal amid a peaceful atmosphere on Monday, the two ruling Awami League-nominated mayoral candidates became victorious, defeating their closest contestants from Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) by a margin of…
The government hopes that the country’s current account deficit will go within the next two years after being negative for most of the past decade. In the medium term, the balance of payments (BOP) will improve further, and the current account balance would return to a positive quadrant by the end of FY26, said the…