Rejaul Karim Byron

The first-of-its-kind $1 billion taka-linked bonds to be issued by the government and the International Finance Corporation will

Banking professionals described Tuesday's grisly bank heist in Ashulia as a very unusual incident that appears to be more of a militant attack than a robbery.

While the country is witnessing significant improvement every year in most health indicators, the death rate of newborns remains

The secretary-level review committee on the Pay Commission is set to cut the recommended salary for the higher rungs of the pay structure and increase that for the lower grades to add a populist hue.

The International Finance Corporation and the Bangladesh government are set to launch a $1 billion offshore taka-linked bond, a move that

The World Bank wants the country to run various reform programmes in energy and transport sectors, including the introduction of

China has offered Bangladesh soft loans of $15-20 billion to help it expand railway networks across the country. Officials of the Chinese embassy in Dhaka placed the loan proposal at a high-level meeting with Bangladesh officials at the Prime Minister's Office in January, railways ministry sources told The Daily Star.

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation is making a whopping profit of Tk 13 to Tk 36 per litre on petroleum products on the back of the

The exchange rate has remained stable despite an increase in imports due to adequate liquidity and timely intervention in the foreign

The finance ministry has for the first time set 13 annual performance targets for the 14 state-owned financial institutions, including

The government is set to revise down current fiscal year's GDP growth projection by 0.5 percentage point to 6.8 percent in light of the

Exports rose 7.43 percent year-on-year to $2.93 billion in March, a development which has brought a ray of sunshine amid the

The government is set to unveil a new scheme that will bring 3.57 crore of the poorest and most vulnerable citizens under social safety plans.

The government plans to make a law to introduce a mandatory pension scheme in the private sector.

The government is set to take $44 million loans from the Islamic Development Bank under slightly harder terms to connect the nation

A joint venture of two companies from France and Japan will construct the second submarine cable station in Kuakata of Patuakhali,

The government is likely to slash the budget for the fiscal year in light of the slow spending in the first six months.

The government's debt servicing costs are set to balloon after sales of high interest-bearing savings instruments rocketed in the first eight months of the fiscal year.

The government plans to take a $50 million “commodity credit” from Belarus with low interest rates for procuring maintenance

Rural households earn more from non-farm activities than agriculture due to the low price of farm products and lack of an appropriate marketing system, a recent survey by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics found.