Rejaul Karim Byron

Bangladesh has gone one notch down in the World Bank's ranking of ease of doing business mainly due to the hurdle businesses face

The number of safety net beneficiaries increased 4.1 percentage points over the last six years but many needy

The cost of a small component of the Padma bridge project has increased 20 percent mainly due to price escalation of construction materials caused by delays in implementation.

The government is set to import 2.5 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice under a state-to-state arrangement and competitive bidding as part of its aggressive push to boost stocks.

The finance ministry has moved to assess how much budgetary allocation is needed for handling the increasing number of Rohingyas

The government is going to build a 24-kilometre elevated expressway from Dhaka airport to Ashulia for quick entry and exit of vehicles to and from the capital.

A World Bank team is doing a need assessment to help Dhaka deal with the Rohingya crisis that is already putting a tremendous pressure on Bangladesh.

Food inflation increased 55 basis points in September to hit 7.87 percent -- the highest in 38 months -- on the back of the massive

The government is set to import 1 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice from neighbouring India under a state-to-state arrangement as part of its aggressive push to boost stocks.

The poor's share in the national income eroded further in the past six years, with the richer segment of the population having bigger stakes.

Bangladesh's rate of poverty reduction has slowed down in recent years.

The International Monetary Fund is eager to provide financial assistance to Bangladesh, along the lines of the World Bank, to deal with

The World Bank has suspended $200 million loan as budget support to the Myanmar government due to the persecution of Rohingyas of Rakhine State.

The deal signed between Beijing and Dhaka for setting up a dedicated economic zone in Chittagong during Chinese President Xi

Exactly a year ago, China committed an estimated $21.5 billion in soft loan to Bangladesh for 27 projects, but Beijing is yet to release any fund mainly due to lengthy bureaucratic tangle.

The government will import 1 lakh tonnes of white rice from Myanmar at a price which is $15 more per tonne than

Orion Development Consortium is set to develop a tourism resort and entertainment village in Cox's Bazar -- billed as the largest in

Dhaka and New Delhi are going to take some fresh measures, including formation of a joint monitoring committee, to quickly

Dhaka and New Delhi have signed a $4.5 billion credit agreement with a provision for spending nearly one fourth of the amount on Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant at Rooppur. Through this deal, India becomes a party to the civil nuclear programme to be implemented by Russia.

Bangladesh's utilisation of Indian lines of credit has been nothing more than a sorry state of affairs in the past seven years. Over the period, Dhaka has witnessed renewed vigour in New Delhi's commitments to financing projects with credits doubling and redoubling.