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Tax-free income limit unchanged

Dhaka, June 3 -- Amid persistent high inflation and shrinking real incomes, the government has decided to keep the annual tax-free income threshold for individual taxpayers unchanged at Tk 3.5 lakh fo... Read More


Number of registered MFS accounts stand at 239.3m in January

Dhaka, June 3 -- Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed yesterday said the total number of registered Mobile Financial Services (MFS) accounts in the country stood at 239.3 million in January 2025, of wh... Read More


Edu budget up with 1.53pc of GDP

Dhaka, June 3 -- The government has proposed to allocate only 1.53 per cent of the GDP to the education sector in the upcoming fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26), continuing a long-standing trend of underinve... Read More


BAU observes World Milk Day

Dhaka, June 3 -- The Faculty of Veterinary Science at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) observed World Milk Day 2025 for the first time on Sunday (1 June), embracing the theme "Let's Celebrate ... Read More


Jefferson-Wooden scorches to 100m win at Grand Slam Track meet

Dhaka, June 3 -- US sprinter Melissa Jefferson-Wooden clocked a world-leading 10.73sec as she stormed to an emphatic victory in the 100m at the Philadelphia Grand Slam Track meeting on Sunday. The 24... Read More


Maxwell retires from ODI

Dhaka, June 3 -- Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has retired from one-day internationals to focus on next year's T20 World Cup. The 36-year-old has played in 149 ODIs since making his debut in 20... Read More


4Ps beneficiaries, BFP to join 'Brigada Eskwela' in Antique

Manila, June 2 -- The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) household beneficiaries and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) personnel will join the June 9-13 annual maintenance activity of the Dep... Read More


Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launches 'Bharat Gen' - India' s first of its kind Indigenously developed government funded AI based Multimodal LLM for Indian Languages at BharatGen Summit

Bhubaneswar, June 2 -- Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh, today launched 'Bharat Gen', India's first-of-its-kind, indigenously developed, Artifi... Read More


Alembic Pharma slips as USFDA issues four observations for Panelav API facility

Mumbai, June 2 -- According to a regulatory filing, the USFDA conducted an unannounced and routine current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) inspection at the company's API-I and API-II facilities l... Read More


Scoda Tubes IPO ends with 53.78x subscription

Mumbai, June 2 -- The initial public offer of Scoda Tubes received bids for 63,71,18,900 shares as against 1,18,46,169 shares on offer. The issue was subscribed 53.78 times. The Non-Institutional Inv... Read More