In the first five months of the fiscal year 2022–23, Bangladesh's trade deficit decreased by six percent year on year to $11.79 billion -- a development that is likely to relieve pressure on the country's foreign exchange reserves.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has said Bangladesh should never worry about bad debt or the so-called debt trap.
The government has to spend more than 40,000 crore to bring Payra Sea Port in Patuakhali and Barishal under the rail network, a study says.
The World Bank has approved $600 million for two projects in Bangladesh to help over 1.75 million poor and vulnerable people.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has formed a three-member committee for an enquiry into the illegal wealth of Hefajat-e-Islam leaders.
Amid the risks of a delayed Rohingya repatriation over coronavirus and unrest in Myanmar, donors yesterday pledged $340m for the Rohingyas and host community in Cox’s Bazar for 2021.
Amid the general economic gloom caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh’s per capita gross national income jumped by more than 9 percent to $2,227 in the current fiscal year from $2,024 in 2019-20.
The road, transport and bridges ministry has stepped back from its decision to start collecting toll from vehicles using the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway from July this year, as structures required for it are yet to be readied.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday claimed to have arrested eight members of a human trafficking gang and rescued four teenage girls supposed to be trafficked into neighbouring countries.
The Daily Star’s senior reporter Ashutosh Sarkar elected president of Law Reporters Forum (LRF) while Didarul Amin, senior reporter of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) elected its general secretary.
The US Department of State yesterday updated its regular travel information and alerted US citizens in Bangladesh to the ongoing potential for extremist violence in Bangladesh.
Five policemen were injured allegedly in an attack by an accused in three cases for drug trading and attack on on-duty
A Dhaka court grants six days remand for each of four people, including a citizen of Germany, arrested over the ATM scam in Dhaka in which at least Tk 20 lakh was swindled out from various booths.
The House last night passed in voice vote “Bangabandhu Science and Technology Fellowship Trust Bill, 2016”.
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) will provide compensation to its clients on Thursday whose money was withdrawn from ATM booths across the city by using fake cards.
Bangladesh Railway Station Master and Karmachary Union yesterday demanded cancellation of the recruitment circular
Some of the family members of four-year-old Jihad who died after falling into a deep well shaft on December 2014, in the capital's Shahjahanpur, are squabbling over the settlement money they had received and denying the agreement of withdrawing the case against the two accused.
A faction of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) yesterday demanded immediate formation of the 9th
