The apparel industry of Bangladesh is struggling to recover from the ongoing global economic crisis and the price hike of yarn has become an unavoidable extra burden.

Chattogram port, the main port of the country has slipped nine notches down in the latest Lloyd's List ranking of the top 100 busiest seaports. After showing continuous advancement since 2014, the progress earned by this port has been set back by the recent pandemic.

Prolonged closure of education institutions during the pandemic has proven fatal for the industry making bags for students.  Many involved in production and sale of bags are facing a crisis. Many are looking for alternate sources of livelihood.

Bangladesh Railway’s west zone has collected a shockingly huge amount of revenue from Indian cargo trains in the last two fiscal years, without upgrading its services and facilities.

Bangladesh-Afghanistan trade relations are in limbo after the Taliban took over.

Almost every Bangladeshi household yearns for the nostalgia of “deshi” chicken. But this yearning comes with a high price tag.

Anwar Hossain, who built Anwar Group of Industries, one of the largest groups of industries in Bangladesh, passed away yesterday.

The production of potatoes has exceeded all expectations.

It has been nine years, and Tk 500 crore has been spent since the project of wastage treatment beside Dhaleshwari river in Savar was inaugurated. But the project is nowhere near completion and the river is being rapidly polluted.

A syndicate is using a new and innovative scheme to manipulate the stock prices of a number of companies in the share market.

The RMG sector, which earns over 80% of the total foreign currencies for Bangladesh and employs over 4 million people, is now battling against the ongoing pandemic.

Around 50 per cent of the rawhides Bangladesh produces a year come during every Eid-ul-Azha, when around 1 crore animals are sacrificed at a time.

Crowds of hundreds of people were seen in front of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) trucks in Rampura area of the capital, to avail daily necessities at low prices.

​As per its tradition, The Daily Star has printed a number of cartoons about the budget. Star Multimedia presents an assortment of these cartoons for the 2021-22 budget.

Despite the allocation of over Tk 107.6 billion for social security, the budget failed to become a refuge to the people with desperate needs, struggles and dreams.

Budget of fiscal year 2021-22 was proposed today, and it will determine the economic future of Bangladesh and its people.

“Black money” -- a term that blows up every budget season, a color that you cannot see, but still somehow is allowed to be “whitened”.

Mobile phone and device manufacturing sector has grown exponentially in Bangladesh keeping pace with the growth of the ICT sector in the country. But this sector has also been a victim of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.

​The national budget is once again upon us. This year, the government is going to place the annual budget for 2021-22 fiscal year when the Covid-19 pandemic is taking a toll on the national economy. The Daily Star has tried to find out how much damage the virus has caused to economic activities and how it affected investment in the country? What are the steps the government now needs to take to overcome the challenges? To find answers to the questions, Star Business Talks approached Rupali Chowdhury, president of Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry and managing director of Berger Paints Bangladesh. Watch the full interview here.

The economic shock induced by the pandemic has pushed 2.45 crore people into poverty in one year. The Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and the Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) run this survey and found that the number of new poor people is higher in urban areas than in rural areas.