Warming climate to hit Bangladesh hard with sea level rise: WB

DHAKA: Bangladesh will be among the most affected countries in South Asia by an expected 2°C rise in the world’s average temperatures in the next decades, with rising sea levels and more extreme heat and more intense cyclones threatening food production, livelihoods, and infrastructure as well as slowing the reduction on poverty, according to a new scientific report released Wednesday by the World Bank Group.

Potential taxpayers in country no less than 6 million: NBR chairman

DHAKA: National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman M Ghulam Hossain on Wednesday said that the potential income tax payers in Bangladesh should not be less than 60 lakh considering the economic size and activities in the country.