The proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year increases investment in digitising government services by 36.01 percent year on year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was given a red-carpet reception as she arrived here yesterday on a five-day official visit to Saudi Arabia

The proposed 1.5 percent tax at source on export is 'absurd' and 'abnormal' as such a high rate might hamper the growth of local

Another 698 union parishads (UPs) go to the polls in the sixth and final phase today, after the electioneering and voting days in all the

A case has been filed against Chittagong-16 constituency ruling Awami League lawmaker Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury and his two

Ten people were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a stone-laden truck and a bus in the district's Sherpur upazila yesterday.

The US state department has said although the number of terrorist attacks around the world declined last year, terror incidents went up significantly in Bangladesh.

The government is considering a further fuel price cut to pass on to consumers the benefit of low fuel prices on the international market, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday.

The challenge of attracting private investment remains as daunting as ever, as the proposed budget did not give any clear outline to

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said he deliberately set an ambitious revenue generation target in the upcoming budget, hoping for more tax collection by the National Board of Revenue. “I have said in the budget speech that it is deliberately ambitious,” he told reporters at a post-budget briefing in the capital's Osmani Memorial Auditorium.

A man is killed and at least seven others injured in a pre-election violence between supporters of two member candidates in Anwara upazila of Chittagong.

Body of a Bangladeshi national is recovered from Raninagar in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

A day after the government announced the proposed budget for 2016-17 fiscal year, the garment makers demand continuation of 0.3 percent source tax instead of increasing it to 1.5 percent.

A case is filed against Chittagong Awami League Lawmaker Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury for allegedly assaulting an upazila election officer last Wednesday.

The challenge of attracting private investment remains the same as the government in the proposed budget for 2016-17 fiscal year did not give any clear outline to boost confidence of investors, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) says in its budget reaction.

The chief executive of secure messaging system SWIFT says the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank, by criminals sending fraudulent payment instructions via SWIFT, would force the organisation to shrink and review its strategy.

Agitated unemployed nurses boycott the recruitment test, continuing their protest at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) campus.

The home ministry of India is ready with draft amendments to citizenship law that will exempt minority citizens of Bangladesh and Pakistan who had gone to that country out of fear of religious prosecution from being tagged as "illegal migrants".

When Ramadan starts, Imran Tahir will begin juggling the demands of observing his Muslim faith and playing a full day of international cricket for a team sponsored by a beer company.

The first namaj-e-janaza of Syed Fahim Munaim, chief executive officer and chief editor at Maasranga Television, has been held on the premises of Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.