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.

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'

Record remittances and recovering foreign-exchange reserves offer a rare cushion, but weakening exports expose vulnerabilities

Restaurant owners in Dhaka are grappling with a deepening liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) crisis, marked by soaring prices and constrained supply despite official data showing steady imports and adequate stock levels.

As temperatures fall and winter cold lingers longer than usual, geysers are once again emerging as a seasonal essential, with demand rising sharply across urban and semi-urban areas of Bangladesh.

Former prime minister Khaleda Zia made a significant contribution to building the institutional foundation of Bangladesh’s capital market by introducing supportive policies and establishing regulatory bodies, according to market leaders.

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed banks to credit inward remittances to beneficiaries’ accounts on the same day or the next business day in order to reduce delays and improve efficiency in cross-border payment processing.