Rejaul Karim Byron

The government is planning to raise the development budget for fiscal 2018-19 by about 20 percent, giving emphasis to accelerating the construction works of some flagship infrastructure projects like the Padma bridge, Rooppur power plant, Dhaka metro rail.

The finance ministry plans to set a revenue collection target of Tk 340,000 crore in the next fiscal year, up 18 percent from that in the

Bangladesh is going to sign an agreement with New Delhi under which Dhaka will take Indian nuclear agency's expert service in Rooppur nuclear power plant.

India has requested Bangladesh to take measures to introduce container train services between the two neighbours by this month in

The government is taking elaborate preparations to organise nationwide celebrations to mark the beginning of

The government will sue the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation of the Philippines by April for its role in the

The development budget is unlikely to be revised down this fiscal year despite the knowledge that a big chunk

The government has amended the electoral rules of Grameen Bank for the third time in four years after its previous

A Chinese consortium is set to build a 1,320 megawatt coal based power plant at Mirersarai in Chittagong on a build-own-operate

The government is set to take up a Tk 632 crore project for much-needed upgrade of the insurance regulator with the view to

The Chinese State Council, the highest policymaking body of the East Asian nation, has finally given the go-ahead to the $3.14 billion

Capital-strapped state-run banks could get a chance to charge a huge number of no-frills services they provide to the public.

The government is going to set up a "textile village” on 28 acres of land belonging to Tangail Cotton Mills under Bangladesh Textile

Foreign aid is likely to be cut by Tk 5,000 crore in the current fiscal year's revised budget despite a significant increase in its

Two years have gone by since the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist, but Bangladesh could not bring back the major chunk of the $81 million wired to the Philippines from BB's account with the New York Fed.

The government has formed a high-powered ten-member national taskforce to implement the roadmap for

The Rohingya influx has caused a critical impact on the forest lands in Cox's Bazar as thousands of hectares have been destroyed for making makeshift camps and collecting firewood.

Bangladesh is likely to lose about $2.7 billion in export earnings every year once it graduates from the Least Developed Country bracket, where it has been for 43 years.

The road authorities open the door to app-based transport service providers like Uber and Pathao but on two key conditions -- fares cannot be more than that of taxi services and security cannot be compromised. The government will fix or re-fix the fares if there is any discontent among passengers over those, according to the proposed guideline for the ride-hailing services.

In a first, the government is set to select bidders through limited tendering for implementing the digital connectivity