Rejaul Karim Byron

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said the government will implement the Ganges Barrage project after making changes to its design.

The government would spend $37 billion by 2031 for ensuring food and water security and fighting disasters, according to a draft of the Delta Plan 2100.

Development spending made a slow start to the current fiscal year despite a government order aimed at beginning project

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has directed to quickly fill over 50,000 vacant posts in different entities under the finance and planning ministries,

The finance ministry has provided a Tk 100 crore loan under some conditions to Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) to help the state agency pay salaries and wages of the staff of its 25 loss-making jute mills.

The finance ministry has recommended that state-run banks publish the details of large loan defaulters on their websites at regular intervals in order to make the defaulters feel embarrassed.

The government is set to extend export subsidy to eight new products and increase the amount for existing ones with a view to boosting overseas shipments and encouraging environment-friendly industrialisation.

The government is going to buy the historic Rose Garden mansion in Old Dhaka -- that was the birthplace of ruling party Awami League -- at about Tk 331.70 crore.

The central bank is going to file a damage claim with a New York court by January next year to recover its reserve money stolen through one of the biggest cyber crimes in the world in February 2016.

The Asian Development Bank is ready to lend $8.01 billion to Bangladesh over the next three years, almost the double the amount it had committed in the previous three years.

The government is working to solve the state banks' longstanding problem of default loans against the Chittagong-based commodity traders, which has almost become a noose around the banks' necks over the last several years.

The government is on its way to doubling the size of a planned permanent exhibition centre in Purbachal new town to hold the annual Dhaka International Trade Fair, thereby increasing the project cost by about 64 percent, despite a scarcity of land in the country.

Unused foreign aid has reached a new high of $44.51 billion despite a record disbursement of development assistance in the last fiscal year, data from the Economic Relations Division showed.

Bangladesh last year received record sums of aid commitments from China and India as the two regional giants look to one up each

The government is going to set up a specialised jute textile mill at a cost of Tk 519 crore although public sector textile and jute mills

The World Bank (WB) will provide around $50 million grant in the first phase to improve the health of Rohingyas who fled Myanmar persecution and took shelter in Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi nationals' deposits in Swiss banks dropped 27 percent year-on-year in 2017 to 481.32 million Swiss francs or Tk 4,064 crore.

The government is going to build 560 model mosques in district and upazila towns across the country spending Tk 8,722 crore from its own resources as Saudi Arabia has not made the funds available.

Ministries and divisions face an uphill task in June as they will have to spend about one-third of the development budget in one month to reach the government's ambitious ADP target.

Subsidy expenditure is set to increase 80.26 percent to Tk 37,804 crore in fiscal 2018-19 as the government looks to bankroll lower gas and fuel prices keeping an eye on the national election due to be held at the end of this year.