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  ADB retains lower GDP growth projection of 6.9pc for FY18

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:11pm on September 26, 2017

  The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday retained its previous lower forecast of economic growth for Bangladesh at 6.9 per cent for the current fiscal year...

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  Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank wants tax exemption

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:57pm on September 24, 2017

  Despite making profit, Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank has requested the government to exempt the bank from paying source tax and income tax and to consider the...

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  Farm loans disbursement soars in 2 months

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:48pm on September 20, 2017

  Farm loans disbursement registered a 35.46 per cent growth in the first two months of this fiscal year (2017-18), compared with that in the same...

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  BB governor requests top remitters to campaign against hundi

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:45pm on September 19, 2017

  Bangladesh Bank governor Fazle Kabir on Tuesday requested top remitters to campaign against using ‘hundi’ channel among the non-resident Bangladeshis with a view to increasing...

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  Loan defaulters barred from getting agent banking licence

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:43pm on September 18, 2017

  Bangladesh Bank on Monday issued guidelines on agent banking, barring loan defaulters from getting licence to operate the services. Through the guidelines, the central bank...

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  Dhaka-Kolkata container train service trial run in October

  Jasim Uddin | Updated at 09:25pm on September 17, 2017

  Bangladesh and India are going to pilot the container train service between Dhaka and Kolkata next month to assess the feasibility of initiating the full-pledged...

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  Govt’s bank borrowing rises in Jul-Sept

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:24pm on September 17, 2017

  The government’s borrowing from the banking sources suddenly increased in July-September of the current fiscal year 2017-18. Bangladesh Bank officials say the government is now...

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  Banks cut rate again in July

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:27pm on September 15, 2017

  Interest rates on lending decreased further in July as commercial banks were forced to cut the rates against the backdrop of businesses’ persistent reluctance to...

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  Banks recover Tk 9,490.39cr in 14yrs, Tk 34,922cr still unpaid

  AKM Zamir Uddin | Updated at 09:57pm on September 14, 2017

  Country’s banks recovered only about 21 per cent or Tk 9,490.39 crore of their written off loans in last 14 years as they (banks) did not...

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  BB blasts 4 SCBs over defaulted loans

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:07pm on September 12, 2017

  Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday criticised the performances of four state-owned commercial banks as the indicators related to their defaulted loans, required capital and credit recovery...