Rejaul Karim Byron

More than 35,000 employees of 260 municipalities have not received salaries for up to seven years due to fund crunch of the local government bodies.

The government is likely to revise down the foreign aid allocation by 15 percent in fiscal 2018-19 -- at a time when there is a record high level of the low-cost fund sitting idle in the pipeline.

Less than half the target of creating 39 lakh jobs was achieved in the first two years of the government's Seventh Five Year Plan (SFYP), though the country registered robust economic growth during the period.

Construction of the country's first underground railway may start in July with funds from Japan. Named MRT Line-1, this track will link the capital's airport and Kamalapur. It will also have an elevated part to connect Purbachal with Notun Bazar. The project deadline is 2026.

Data scarcity has emerged as one of the major challenges in implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, as it has left

With the help of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bangladesh yesterday launched a legal battle to recover the full amount stolen from its central bank's reserve.

It looked like any other email job-seekers send. The sender Rasel Ahlam attached a cover letter and a resume apparently hoping for a call for a personal interview.

Some $5.9 billion was siphoned out of Bangladesh in 2015 through trade misinvoicing, the Global Financial Integrity (GFI) said in a report yesterday.

The much-anticipated Padma Bridge is expected to open to traffic within June next year, as the complexity over some of the piers has been addressed.

Eight projects are likely to be placed in today's Ecnec meeting, in what can be viewed as a return to normal order following the flurry of project approvals in the three months to the 11th general elections.

The World Bank has attached several conditions to its budget support programme that it extended to Bangladesh for three years with a view to creating faster job growth, which has slowed down in recent times.

October, 1971. The war waged by the Pakistani occupation army on Bangalees had just entered its eighth month.

The government may impose an import tax of Tk 1,000 to Tk 2,000 per bhori of gold under a new policy, mainly to discourage smuggling and use of legal channels to bring in bullion.

Bankers' hopes of making substantial loan recovery in the lead up to the polls did not come about as many sharp-witted election

The much-awaited database of national savings certificate holders, which is expected to check the current misuse of the high-yielding savings tools, is expected to take off from February next year.

The use of foreign aid in the first four months of the fiscal year dropped 8.80 percent in spite of the ambitious utilisation target set by the government.

Within a year of completion, overloaded lorries and high number of vehicles plying have created ruts on the expanded Dhaka-Chattogram highway.

The government yesterday approved 39 development projects worth Tk 86,687 crore in an apparent move to woo voters ahead of the general election.

More than 35 projects, mainly involving police, rural and urban infrastructure development, are likely to be placed for approval before a special Ecnec meeting today.

Bangladesh ranked 176th out of 190 countries in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index this year, which is the lowest ranking for a South Asian nation -- an alarming development given the government's claims of reforms to improve the score.