Abbas Uddin Noyon

Abbas Uddin Noyon is a Senior Correspondent at The Business Standard. With a 12-year career in the field, his focus has primarily been on government fiscal policy, bilateral trade, private investment, tax, customs, trade, industry, stock market, environment, migration, livestock etc. He can be reached at aunoyonju@gmail.com 
 

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Industry

Global scrap price surge drives up steel rod prices in Bangladesh

Yasir Azman, Grameenphone CEO. Sketch: TBS
Telecom

Grameenphone CEO sees 2026 as a reset year for telecom sector

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Industry

AkijBashir Group enters cable market with Tk300cr investment

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Energy

VAT relief, lower interest rates, easier LC processing agreed to ease LPG crisis

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Telecom

High taxes squeeze telecom sector, push costs onto consumers

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Energy

LPG supply crunch hits consumers; 12kg cylinders scarce, prices soar to Tk2,000

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Telecom

Users flag anomalies as NEIR portal shows dozens of phones registered against one NID

Mobile phone traders besiege BTRC building at Agargaon on 1 January 2026, protesting the implementation of NEIR. Photo: Focus Bangla
Bangladesh

Phone traders reject NEIR rollout, call tax cut 'insufficient'

Jon Omund Revhaug, chairman of Grameenphone and head of Telenor Asia. Sketch: TBS
Interviews

'Bangladesh has opportunity to show that security and digital rights can go hand in hand'

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Health

Big players reshaping Bangladesh's retail pharmacy landscape

Gillette Fusion Proglide razor with old Proglide cartridge (before 2020) with 5 blades. Photo: Nord794ub, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Bangladesh

The day Gillette disappeared and shaving became a challenge

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Economy

Smartphones a must now but too high a tax makes them unaffordable for many

A prime example of Bhola’s potential is Sheltech Ceramics, a venture of the prominent Sheltech Group. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Bhola booms as gas, land and low costs draw billions in new industries