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92 thousand crores or more siphoned out in 15 years?
Based on the compilation of media reports on bank scams between 2008 and 2023, CPD said as much as 92 thousand crores of taka have been siphoned out of the banking sector in the last fifteen years
Is Bangladesh going towards a deep economic crisis?
How can Bangladesh avoid the economic crisis to deepen further?
How can Bangladesh resolve economic, political problems?
Why is Bangladesh facing economic problems? Why did the country fail to follow the IMF's loan conditions? What are the remedies?
Where can the national debit card 'Taka Pay’ be found?
What can be done with the national debit card? Where can the ‘Taka Pay’ card be found? Will the card end the business of Mastercard and Visa in Bangladesh?
Khulna farmers prefer cultivating beans instead of shrimps
Shrimps were once widely cultivated in Dumuria upazila of Khulna. Now, farmers in this area are moving towards growing vegetables, especially beans. Vegetables from Dumuria are also exported to many countries in Europe
Fishes aplenty at Friday haat
A haat pops up every Friday along the Kaliakoir-Tangail road in Gazipur where buyers find almost all varieties of fish available in the country
How to solve gas crisis
Gas crisis started in Bangladesh in March of 2022. But the crisis worsened in the last two months.
How was last week's stockmarket?
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange lost 14 points in the last week. The index rose in three days of the week, but it fell at the end of the week.
Why does the insurance sector struggle in Bangladesh?
The insurance sector plays a big role in risk management for a country. And for a developing country like Bangladesh, the sector has immense potential. Insurance has become a part and parcel of the people in developed countries. But at the same time, Bangladesh’s insurance sector has narrowed down in the last decade.
Why do local garments get 83% lower prices than competitors?
Bangladesh exports garment items of 10 categories. But the south Asian nation is getting around 32% to 83% lower prices than the global rates. Geneva-based International Trade Center has recently found out why Bangladesh is getting lower prices and competitors higher.
How was last week’s stock market
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange lost 75 points last week from the previous week. In the four trading days, the index fell in two days and remained flat in rest two. One thing was common that there was no buyer for most of the stocks. Which shares experienced the biggest rise and which price cut? Which were the top traded shares of the week?
Knitwear’s journey to become top RMG exporter
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted garment export from all apparel-producing nations, but the case was different for Bangladesh. Most of the garment factories remained open during the whole pandemic. After remaining slow for a brief period, apparel shipment from Bangladesh continued rising and knitwear played the biggest role here too. Now knitwear is the biggest foreign currency earner for Bangladesh’s garments sector. How did knitwear become Bangladesh’s biggest garment exporter? Can knitwear maintain this rising export trend?
Why are share prices of well-performing firms falling?
The Russia-Ukraine war has affected the whole world. Bangladesh has also become victim of it, as inflation in the south Asian country is increasing now when its foreign currency reserve is depleting. But at the same time, the share prices of well-performing companies are decreasing and stocks of firms with small capital are rising.
How was last week’s stock market
The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange gained 56 points last week from the previous week. The index rose majority of the trading days though most of the stocks were almost buyerless.
Why is remittance decreasing but imports rising?
Manpower export from Bangladesh rose 185 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months—which is a record. However, remittance inflow and export earnings fell in September when the country’s import volume continue increasing.
Dwarakanath Tagore: The forefather of bank defaulted loans
Bank owners’ corruption and loan defaults are not new in Bangladesh.
