Opinion / Laldia deal, a missed opportunity to set an example
The deal started as an unsolicited bid from Maersk Group, the parent company of APM Terminals, in 2023.
2 December 2025, 07:00 AM
2 December 2025, 07:00 AM
Star Interview / ‘BNP’s 31-point charter embodies public will’
Mahdi Amin, adviser to BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman, speaks to The Daily Star
19 April 2025, 18:08 PM
19 April 2025, 18:08 PM
News Analysis / It’s time for serious stocktaking
Bangladesh Bank has opened a can of worms with its revision of the balance of payment data. There is no better way to put it.
4 July 2024, 18:00 PM
4 July 2024, 18:00 PM
News Analysis / Inflation is the new normal
Suggest steps taken in the monetary policy
18 January 2024, 18:00 PM
18 January 2024, 18:00 PM
Is Yunus’s sentencing an ominous message for foreign investors?
Surely, the manner of Yunus’s sentencing does not add to the broader investor confidence in Bangladesh, and the data points already are not promising.
6 January 2024, 05:10 AM
6 January 2024, 05:10 AM
Inflation hits 11-year high
If there is one indicator that epitomises the government’s mismanagement of the economy in recent times, it is inflation -- which raced to an 11-year high of 9.94 percent in May.
6 June 2023, 01:00 AM
6 June 2023, 01:00 AM
A budget divorced from reality
Self-contradictory is what best describes Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s fifth budget, and the last of the Awami League-led government’s current term.
2 June 2023, 01:00 AM
2 June 2023, 01:00 AM
Bracing for budget of self-preservation
In 2019, when AHM Mustafa Kamal took charge as the finance minister, the Bangladesh economy was taxing for take-off for its long-haul flight to the developed country club.
1 June 2023, 01:00 AM
1 June 2023, 01:00 AM
Perks of digital transactions
Technology is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts after the gift of life, eminent American physicist Freeman Dyson once said -- and
11 August 2018, 18:00 PM
India urges AIIB to scale up lending to $40b by 2020
The third annual meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank wrapped up yesterday with calls from one of its earliest champions, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to scale up its lending tenfold over the next two years.
26 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh to get AIIB focus this year
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank plans to lend out $3.5 billion this year, with India, Bangladesh and Turkey to take greater focus than the other 83 member countries, said DJ Pandian, its chief investment officer.
25 June 2018, 18:00 PM
AIIB bullish on Bangladesh
Bangladesh is progressively becoming one of the more important countries for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, with the China-led multilateral lender looking to bankroll energy and transport projects in the country.
24 June 2018, 18:00 PM
LG Electronics: gung-ho about Bangladesh
South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics is working to set up a manufacturing plant in Bangladesh, in a development that is set to
3 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Perks of having a credit card
Credit card: two words the mention of which turn many into full-blown cynics.
22 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Power: the safest bet
British statesman Winston Churchill once said that a pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity and an optimist
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh ready for take-off
Bangladesh is ready to turn the corner for good and foreign investors could do well for themselves by hopping on
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
In Bangladesh, investment returns outweigh risks
Policymakers, economists and private sector movers and shakers yesterday convened at the Asian financial hub, Singapore, to present
1 September 2015, 18:00 PM