UNB, Barisal :Collection of land revenue in the district has increased by Tk 9 crore to Tk 78.90 crore in 2013 compared to the previous year.Sources at the Barisal district Land Revenue and Land Registration offices said Tk 69.5 crore revenue was collected from registration of 52,274 deeds for buying and selling of land in 2012 in 10 upazilas of Barisal district.In 2013, land revenue collection increased to Tk 78. 9 crore from the registration of 48,636 land transfer deeds,...
PTI, New Delhi :In order to enhance bilateral trade, India and Pakistan yesterday agreed on a non-discriminatory market access (NDMA) programme in place of the MFN regime, besides opening up Wagah-Attari border round the clock.“It has been decided to intensify and accelerate the process of trade normalisation, liberalisation and facilitation and to implement the agreed measures before the end of February 2014,” Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said at a press conference, held jointly with his Pakistani counterpart Khurram...
Xinhua, Yangon :The Central Bank of Myanmar will allow foreign banks to operate in the country this year, local media reported Sunday.Drafting of regulations to govern such operation is underway with the help of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).Meanwhile, private banks have been granted to run money changers for official trading of three foreign currencies-U.S. dollar, Singapore dollar and euro with Myanmar Kyat at daily designated exchange rate.Last year, Foreign Exchange Certificate (FEC) was abolished.So far, over 20...
Business Desk :Despite constraints and unusual situation in the country, the GDP growth rate of Bangladesh is expected to be 6 percent in the current fiscal 2013-14, Planning Minister A H M Mustafa Kamal said on Sunday.“We’ll try to attain around 6 percent GDP growth rate in the current fiscal year given the situation, facing all the constraints and all the odds, and considering the vulnerabilities of the world economy. We’ll move ahead addressing our weaknesses,” he said.The newly inducted...
UNB, Dhaka :Share price index at the country’s twin bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – began the week on Sunday with moderate gain as the two bourses have been maintaining bullish trend for fifth consecutive session since last week.The DSE benchmark index touched 4565.40 points, the highest ever in recent months after the business and commerce passed through a political turmoil across the country.Trading at both the DSE and CSE began on positive note...
bdnews24.com :The Japan development agency, JICA, is ready to talk again about the Padma bridge project if the government wants, its new chief for Bangladesh says.The new Chief Representative Mikio Hataeda told bdnews24.com that they were closely watching the progress of the project as they understood its ‘importance’.“Once the government likes to talk about the project then I am always ready to talk,” he said on the sidelines of a JICA reception on Saturday.JICA Dhaka Office bade farewell to its...
Business Desk :In an effort to bring the country’s non-banking population under banking network and ensure financial inclusion, Bank Asia has begun Agent Banking pilot phase in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj district.In the presence of Dasgupta Asim Kumar, executive director of Bangladesh Bank, A Rouf Chowdhury, chairman of Bank Asia, formally opened the activities of agent banking at Bhabanipur Bazar on Friday.Agent Banking means providing banking services to the bank customers through the engaged agents under a valid agency agreement,...
AFP, Beijing :China’s economy last year registered flat growth of 7.7 percent, maintaining its slowest expansion in more than a decade as the government warned Monday of “deep-rooted problems” including a mountain of local authority debt.Gross domestic product (GDP) expansion for the October-December quarter also came in at 7.7 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, slowing from 7.8 percent in the previous three months.The 2013 GDP figure was the same as that for 2012 — which was the...