Rejaul Karim Byron

Private sector credit growth dropped 1.12 percentage points in June from a year earlier due to cautious lending and slow export and remittance growth.

Bangladesh and China are going to sign final deals on the Padma Bridge Rail Link and four other projects involving $6.8 billion by this year.

Some of the 26 state-owned enterprises that were instructed to offload their shares in the stockmarket are being resolutely defiant in

The central bank yesterday held its final round of meetings to lock down an expansionary monetary policy for the

Bangladesh Bank has taken yet another step to increase rice import to boost stock and stabilise the price level of the

If the government comes up with a clear vision and a new comprehensive plan, the World Bank is ready to support and finance the

The government is set to build a diesel-fired 150 megawatt power plant in Saidpur, the fuel for which will be imported from India.

The central bank can extend rescheduling facilities to small and medium enterprises if it wants to bump up the

Governance failings and appointment of politically linked people to the boards of public banks have been contributing to default on large loans, frequent scams and poor recovery of stolen money.

Foreign aid disbursement slid 4.78 percent last fiscal year even though a huge amount is ready for use and is now

The ministries and divisions managed to spend only 89.34 percent of their development budget in the just-concluded fiscal year, the lowest in eight years.

Remittance inflow to Bangladesh from outside the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, especially the US, crashed in fiscal 2016-17

The revenue authority is relying on cigarettes and tobacco products and a steady growth of economic activities to soften the blow of

Japan, Bangladesh's largest bilateral lender, is set to provide $1.59 billion in loans this fiscal year but the interest rate will be increased

It was mainly the pressure from big businesses that led to the government's backtracking on its decision to implement the new VAT law. Appeasing the people in general was not much of a reason, which the government has been touting. The late u-turn of the government last month has left the National Board of Revenue (NBR) in a spot of bother, as it now has to fill a gaping hole in its revenue collection target.

Bangladeshi nationals' deposits in Swiss banks rose 20.18 percent year-on-year in 2016 to 661.96 million Swiss francs or Tk 5,575 crore. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) came up with the data in its annual report titled “Banks in Switzerland 2016”.

Unlike previous budgets, which were passed by parliaments with minor changes, this year's proposed budget could have major

The government will widen a narrow 51-kilometre road from Ashuganj river port to Akhaura land port to four lanes for smooth transhipment of Indian goods.

The government may backtrack on its plan to implement the new VAT law from July this year, in the face of pressure from a section of

Rice import by the private sector has dropped to a four-year low at a time when its prices have shot up in the domestic market. Traders imported only 1.2 lakh tonnes of rice till mid-June in the current fiscal year against 2.56 lakh tonnes in the previous fiscal year.