News analysis / Appointment that can undo economic recovery
26 February 2026
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, the German philosopher Karl Marx said.
26 February 2026
Opinion / Laldia deal, a missed opportunity to set an example
2 December 2025
The deal started as an unsolicited bid from Maersk Group, the parent company of APM Terminals, in 2023.
2 December 2025
Star Interview / ‘BNP’s 31-point charter embodies public will’
19 April 2025
Mahdi Amin, adviser to BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman, speaks to The Daily Star
19 April 2025
News Analysis / It’s time for serious stocktaking
4 July 2024
Bangladesh Bank has opened a can of worms with its revision of the balance of payment data. There is no better way to put it.
4 July 2024
News Analysis / Inflation is the new normal
18 January 2024
Suggest steps taken in the monetary policy
18 January 2024
Is Yunus’s sentencing an ominous message for foreign investors?
6 January 2024
Surely, the manner of Yunus’s sentencing does not add to the broader investor confidence in Bangladesh, and the data points already are not promising.
6 January 2024
Inflation hits 11-year high
6 June 2023
If there is one indicator that epitomises the government’s mismanagement of the economy in recent times, it is inflation -- which raced to an 11-year high of 9.94 percent in May.
6 June 2023
A budget divorced from reality
2 June 2023
Self-contradictory is what best describes Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s fifth budget, and the last of the Awami League-led government’s current term.
2 June 2023
The middle ground between cash and credit card
Debit cards are the happy medium between credit cards and cash -- one gets the convenience of carrying a card without the risk of
11 August 2018
Perks of digital transactions
Technology is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts after the gift of life, eminent American physicist Freeman Dyson once said -- and
11 August 2018
India urges AIIB to scale up lending to $40b by 2020
The third annual meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank wrapped up yesterday with calls from one of its earliest champions, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to scale up its lending tenfold over the next two years.
26 June 2018
Bangladesh to get AIIB focus this year
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank plans to lend out $3.5 billion this year, with India, Bangladesh and Turkey to take greater focus than the other 83 member countries, said DJ Pandian, its chief investment officer.
25 June 2018
AIIB bullish on Bangladesh
Bangladesh is progressively becoming one of the more important countries for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, with the China-led multilateral lender looking to bankroll energy and transport projects in the country.
24 June 2018
LG Electronics: gung-ho about Bangladesh
South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics is working to set up a manufacturing plant in Bangladesh, in a development that is set to
3 January 2018
Perks of having a credit card
Credit card: two words the mention of which turn many into full-blown cynics.
22 August 2017
Power: the safest bet
British statesman Winston Churchill once said that a pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity and an optimist
11 October 2015
Bangladesh ready for take-off
Bangladesh is ready to turn the corner for good and foreign investors could do well for themselves by hopping on
11 October 2015
In Bangladesh, investment returns outweigh risks
Policymakers, economists and private sector movers and shakers yesterday convened at the Asian financial hub, Singapore, to present
1 September 2015