Businesses voice frustration over policy concentration

The government is set to slash allocations for development spending by 12.5 percent in the current fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26), as the originally allocated fund remains largely unspent in the first five months.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has set a target to reduce non-performing loans (NPLs) to 25 percent from the current 36 percent by March, according to senior bankers.

The 15th edition of the “Garments Accessories and Packaging Expo-2026 (GAPEXPO)” is going to be held in Dhaka between January 14 and 17 to showcase garment accessories, fabrics, yarn, and textile machinery from home and abroad.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has rolled out a new large-value transaction facility allowing corporate tax and value-added tax payments through the mobile financial service provider, bKash.

Bangladesh recorded a surge in net foreign direct investment (FDI) during the July-September quarter of 2025, with reinvested earnings emerging as the dominant driver of growth -- a development that reflects both investor confidence and limitations in attracting fresh capital.

The Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has announced a reduction in registration and renewal fees for two categories of .bd domain names to encourage local use.

But kept package prices unchanged

Prolonged political unrest poses a major drag on Bangladesh’s economic growth amid global trade uncertainty, said BMI, a provider of insights, data, and analytics owned by Fitch Solutions.

After the interim government kept bank lending rates high for about one and a half years to reduce inflation, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed acknowledged that tight monetary policy alone cannot cool soaring prices.

An acute shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has forced nearly all autogas stations across the country to shut down operations, said Serajul Mawla, president of the Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association, yesterday.

Bangladesh’s readymade garment exports to the United States, the country’s largest single-market destination, grew more than 15 percent year-on-year to $7.08 billion in the January-October period, according to US government data.

Mousumi Mirdha, a resident of Mohammadpur in Dhaka, recently bought an induction cooker to cope with the ongoing gas shortage.

After years of inertia, Bangladesh’s telecom sector has begun to move again under the interim government, reopening long-stalled reform pathways even as deep structural problems continue to weigh on investment and innovation, according to Grameenphone (GP) CEO Yasir Azman.

Raising investment and taming inflation will be the main economic challenges for the next elected government, private think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said yesterday.

Each bhori will cost Tk 227,856 from tomorrow

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The adviser noted that interest rates are often discussed as if there were simple solutions

In many cases, vehicle owners roam from one station to another for hours but fail to collect gas

CPD said Bangladesh is at a ‘critical juncture of its journey'