On October 10, 2021, Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission increased the price of LP gas by Tk 226 per 12kg cylinder unit, a new record in retail price. Now consumers have to spend Tk 1,259 for one 12kg cylinder of LP gas.

Bangladesh has seen its lowest remittance in 16 months in September. In last fiscal year 2020-21, Bangladesh received a record remittance of US$ 24.78 billion, and many saw it as a change towards the positive.

The e-commerce sector experienced rapid expansion during the coronavirus pandemic but the scene changed at the beginning of this year when news of corruption and irregularities of different online platforms started to surface. People started moving away from these platforms and the number of transactions in e-commerce through cards declined by 42% from Tk 1,277 crore in June to Tk 742 crore in July.

The European Union, the largest importer of readymade garments from Bangladesh, will cease to provide the generalised system of preferences (GSP) scheme after the country upgrades to developing nation status.

After the Islamic Foundation, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution will be the second authority in the country to provide a halal certificate. To boost exports, BSTI will issue halal certification for processed products, notably processed foods.

There are often irregularities in share prices at the stock market. But this is the first time in a while that an institutional investor like a bank is involved in such an irregularity. The culprit here is NRB Bank.

The government has reduced the interest rate of savings certificate, allegedly due to pressure from different stakeholders.

According to Bangladesh Bank, in the last 2.5 years, the e-commerce sector in Bangladesh has grown 10 fold. Between 2019 and 2020, the amount of transactions of any online-based business has grown double, triple or even four times. But the population that had just recently gotten used to online transactions were jolted by the news of e-commerce companies being exposed, one after another, for various irregularities. Lakhs of online customers are uncertain about hundreds of crores of taka tied up in these online platforms.

Bangladesh recently decided to lend $250 million dollars to Sri Lanka from its foreign currency reserve. This loan will be provided through a currency swap mechanism.

Farmers in Moulvibazar are profiting from honey cultivation with minimal investment.

Where once ponds, lakes and rivers of Bangladesh were full to the brim with fish, species like Bhangon Bata, Nandi, Mohashol, Khorka or Khorika, Goalpara Puia, Pipla Shol or Tila Shol, Kala Pabda, Baghair and Chenua have now became nearly extinct.

Low prices offered by Milk Vita, the sole government-owned dairy factory of the country, has been driving local dairy farmers to turn to unhygienic and unregulated private companies, cutting Milk Vita’s dairy production in half.

The stock market index in the country is stepping up to another new record high as time passes and experts are pointing towards a number of recent incidents and stock market authorities for this upwards trend.

Bangladesh's frozen shrimp processing industry is in a dismal state.

Ten of the top-ranking private banks of the country have breached central bank regulations by setting the interest rate on deposits far lower than the interest rate charged on loans to account holders. In some cases the clients stand to face losses if they make fixed deposits.

Jamdani industrial city has failed miserably in the last two decades. Despite the fact that Jamdani is recognized as the country's first traditional product, BSCIC has failed to generate any economic opportunities.

The government has so far adopted stimulus packages worth Tk 135,000 crore to revive the economy hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

When Arifa Yasmin Mayuri tried to live her life as a trans woman in this society, she faced abuse and prejudice from both her family and the society at large.

The price of edible oil does not seem to be coming under control, try as one may. Importers attribute the increase in the price of edible oil on the global market to a number of factors.

Aruni Sarkar has invented 6 new climate resistant varieties of Aman rice. This farmer from Gangarampur village of Batiaghata upazila of Khulna had the dream of inventing new varieties of Aman to bring high rice yield in the southwestern region of the country.