Government's bank-borrowing debt deepens as the borrowed aggregate sum ballooned over the revised higher target to Tk 1.32 trillion even before the just-past financial year's end. To meet budgetary shortfall, the government had initially set a bank-borrowing target of Tk 1.04 trillion for the fisc
The Bangladesh Bank's (BB) latest Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the first half of FY2026-27 signals continuity rather than change. Faced with persistently high inflation, the central bank has decided to maintain its contractionary monetary-policy stance, keeping the policy repo rate unchanged
The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings for the year 2027 released on June 18 last once again presents a poor showing by the universities---public or private--- in Bangladesh. As usual the University of Dhaka (DU) is leading the pack with its ranking exactly at 600th spot shared by
A health system shows its true character not in how it manages routine illness, but in how it responds when a life hangs by a thread - after a highway crash, during a heart attack, when a child's pneumonia turns severe, or when a newborn fights for survival. By that measure, Bangladesh is falling s
Corruption is widely recognised as one of the most significant barriers to economic development, efficient governance, and public trust. Yet despite decades of reform efforts across the developing world, corruption remains remarkably resilient. Governments establish anti-corruption commissions, int
A late-night deal agreed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling coalition on a long-awaited package of reforms has the potential to give Germany's anaemic economy a shot in the arm if implemented fully and quickly, ‌economists and busi...
Bangladesh’s merchandise exports posted a robust 25.91 percent year-on-year growth in June 2026, closing out fiscal year 2025-26 with renewed momentum despite persistent global economic and geopolitical headwinds, according to provisi...
Government's bank-borrowing debt deepens as the borrowed aggregate sum ballooned over the revised higher target to Tk 1.32 trillion even before the just-past financial year's end. To meet budgetary shortfall, the government had initially s...
The national budget for FY2026-27 (FY27) places renewed emphasis on public investment. With an Annual Development Programme (ADP) of Tk 3.0 trillion, equivalent to 4.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), the government has signalled i...
The World Bank (WB) has warned that the distressed banking sector is the primary hurdle to the incumbent BNP government's ambition of transforming Bangladesh into a US$1.0 trillion economy by 2034. The barrier to achieve this ambitiou...
After years of high inflation, currency pressure, falling private investment, banking vulnerabilities, and slow growth, the economy is moving from stabilisation to recovery. Against the backdrop, the FY2026-27 budget seeks to stimulate econ...
On June 11, 2026, the finance minister presented Bangladesh's FY2026-27 national budget, a record BDT 9.38 trillion, or about USD 77 billion. The expansionary budget targets 6.5 per cent GDP growth, aims to reduce inflation to 7.5 per cent,...
On June 11 2026, Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury MP stood before parliament and announced a budget Bangladesh had never seen before: Tk 9.38 trillion, or roughly US$ 85 billion. The number is staggering. But number...
The Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) has welcomed the capital market-friendly measures included in the national budget for fiscal year 2026-27, saying the initiatives are expected to restore investor confidence, attract fresh...
Listed conglomerate BEST Holdings Ltd has recommended no dividend for the financial year ended June 30, 2025, after reporting a sharp decline in profitability, according to a regulatory disclosure published on Tuesday. The...
A delegation from the Chittagong Stock Exchange PLC (CSE) held a meeting with Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Md Mostaqur Rahman on Monday to discuss strengthening the capital market to support private sector financing and sustainable economi...
Bangladesh's business landscape is often described with a headline statistic: more than 300,000 entities are registered with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC). This figure is quoted routinely — by policymakers, d...
As the National Board of Revenue embarks on its customary round of pre-budget consultations with business associations, economists, journalists and other stakeholders ahead of the upcoming national budget, the fiscal pressures bearing down...
Highlighting a significant momentum in the country’s push toward a cashless society, the nationwide mandatory rollout of the unified "Bangla QR" payment standard recorded 77,165 transactions amounting to Tk 220.2 million over a span o...
The government has decided to keep interest rates on national savings certificates unchanged for the July-December period, citing the interests of middle-income families. Currently, investors can earn a maximum return ranging from 11.77 pe...
on 1 July 2026, Daffodil International University (DIU) welcomed Mr. Tadej Slapnik, a prominent Slovenian tech entrepreneur, former Member of Parliament of Slovenia, and former Secretary of State at the Office of the Prime Minister of the R...
The total marine water area of Bangladesh covers about 48,365 square nautical miles, an area as large as the country's landmass. As a coastal country, with 300-mile long coastline, Bangladesh is well-positioned to develop a thriving marine...
There was a time when organisations were defined by what they owned: factories, assets and infrastructure. That is no longer the case. Today, organisations are increasingly defined by the partners they rely on. From procurement and logistic...
Police have moved a court to show former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque arrested for his alleged connection with an attempted murder and the use of explosives to disperse protesters in Dhaka’s Mohakhali during the July Uprising, repo...
Corruption is widely recognised as one of the most significant barriers to economic development, efficient governance, and public trust. Yet despite decades of reform efforts across the developing world, corruption remains remarkably resili...
The unveiling of the updated Strategic Transport Plan (STP) for Dhaka marks an important moment in the city's long and often frustrating struggle against traffic congestion, inadequate public transport and unplanned urban expansion. The pro...
The theme of Bangladesh’s national budget for fiscal year 2026–27—”Towards a Democratic, Humane and Inclusive Economy”—is among the most ambitious framings attached to an annual fiscal document in recent...
A National Economic Mission is a coordinated strategy that aligns diplomacy, investment, finance, industry and implementation around clearly defined national economic objectives. The Prime Minister Tarique Rahman deserves congratulations f...
গাজীপুরের কালিয়াকৈরে বাংলাদেশ কৃষি ব্যাংকের শাখা ব্যবস্থাপক আব্দুস সবুরকে অপহরণ, মুক্তিপণ আদায় এবং ভল্টের চাবির জন্য নির্যাতনের ঘটনায় তীব্র নিন্দা জানিয়েছে জাতীয়তাবাদী ব্যাংকার্স অ্যাসোসিয়েশন বাংলাদেশ (জেবিএবি)। রোববার সংগঠনের যুগ্ম আহ্বায়...
শীতকাল এলেই ত্বকের উপর এর প্রভাবটা যেন সবার আগে চোখে পড়ে। বাতাসের আর্দ্রতা কমে যাওয়া, চারপাশের শুষ্ক পরিবেশ আর ঠান্ডা বাতাস ত্বকের কোমলতা কেড়ে নেয়। অনেকের ত্বক খসখসে হয়ে যায়, কারও কারও ত্বকে টান-টান ভাব দেখা দেয়। আবার অনেকের নিশপিশ ও ত্বক ফ...
নতুন বছর মানেই মানুষের জীবনে হাসি, গান আর আতশবাজির ঝলকানি। আমরা যখন ঘড়ির কাটার দিকে তাকিয়ে কাউন্টডাউনের অপেক্ষা করি, ঠিক তখনই শহরের প্রাণীগুলো মুখোমুখি হয় অন্য এক বাস্তবতার। আতশবাজির বিকট শব্দে কেঁপে ওঠে পথকুকুর, কার্নিশে বসে থাকা পাখিরা দি...
১৯৭১ সালের মুক্তিযুদ্ধ বাংলাদেশের ইতিহাসে এক অনন্য অধ্যায়। এই যুদ্ধকে আমরা প্রায়ই শহরের রাজপথ, সেনানিবাস বা সীমান্তের যুদ্ধক্ষেত্রের মধ্যেই সীমাবদ্ধ করে দেখি। অথচ প্রকৃত অর্থে এই যুদ্ধের সবচেয়ে দীর্ঘস্থায়ী, সবচেয়ে রক্তাক্ত এবং সবচেয়ে নিঃশব্...
Three people died from suffocation as thousands of fans crowded Mexico City streets during World Cup celebrations, the capital's health secretariat said in the early hours of Wednesday. The deaths occurred near the Angel of Independence la...
Recriminations are expected to follow swiftly after Senegal’s calamitous exit from the World Cup, with a schism apparent in the squad after they lost to Belgium in Seattle on Wednesday. The future of coach Pape Bouna Thiaw, who is ba...
Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon has announced plans to recruit more than 102,500 teachers across Bangladesh. The drive will include 32,500 head teachers for government primary schools and 70,000 teachers and lecturers for privat...
The Dhaka University (DU) celebrated its 106th founding anniversary on Wednesday with a series of colourful programmes, including a grand rally, flag hoisting, cake-cutting ceremony, discussion sessions, cultural performances and a concert....
Students from the Animation Track and Journalism Program of the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) attended the opening day of The Second Studio Featuring Best Show Everest exhibition at Alliance Française de Dhaka o...
The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings for the year 2027 released on June 18 last once again presents a poor showing by the universities---public or private--- in Bangladesh. As usual the University of Dhaka (DU) is leading...
Recent inspection by the Monitoring and Evaluation Wing of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) brought to light poor state of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities in schools. Of the 740 secondary educational...
Bangladesh today is home to one of the youngest populations in Asia, a generation whose ambitions are outpacing the systems meant to prepare them. As young people enter universities, polytechnics, and training institutes in record numbers,...
When a business owner in California types "hire virtual assistant" into a search engine, the results are not random. They are the product of years of deliberate positioning, cultural fluency in the global market, and a country that decided...
A labour market can deteriorate without any of the visible drama economists and editors typically reach for when describing decline. There is no need for mass retrenchments, no executive statements of contrition, no sudden collapse in payro...
Traditionally, war has been quantified in terms of obvious destruction: loss of territories, cities reduced to rubble, and soldiers killed in combat. Governments count victories and defeats through statistics and shifting borders. However,...
Imagine spending months running between government offices, submitting the same documents again and again to different agencies, only to be told you are missing one more signature from one more department. For generations of Bangladeshi ent...
Over the past few decades, Bangladesh has experienced multifaceted development due to expanded school enrolment, improved literacy rates, and substantial progress in gender parity in education. Still, the persistent problem of poor educatio...
Bangladesh's universities are churning out more and more start-ups. Jam-packed demo days and booming business plan competitions often spark celebration on social media. However, behind all this outward momentum is a sobering fact: around 90...
Across Bangladesh, Ramadan 2026 has drawn young people into its centre in ways that go well beyond routine observance. In Dhaka, student clubs and volunteer groups have taken on community dinners and charity drives with a seriousness that s...
Canada is aiming to co-announce around 10 founding nations for a global defence bank at next week's NATO summit in Turkey, the lead Canadian negotiator told Reuters on Thursday. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is promoting the Defence,...
Eight Buddhist monks were killed and more than 20 others injured after being hit by a pickup truck driven by an 11-year-old boy while on a pilgrimage in Thailand’s northeastern province of Mukdahan, officials said on Thursday. The vi...
The World Bank Group said on Monday it will "retire" its previous goal to devote 45% of its annual lending resources to projects with climate co-benefits, but extend its longstanding Climate Change Action Plan that was due to expire on Tues...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's China visit has understandably generated considerable enthusiasm in Bangladesh. Government leaders have portrayed the visit as a diplomatic breakthrough that ushers bilateral relations into a new era. The joi...
When the Swiss National Bank quietly releases its annual banking statistics, most of the world barely notices. But for the citizens of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, three nations perpetually locked in a cycle of poverty, debt, and underd...
