Rejaul Karim Byron

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.

Rural customers have to spend money to get farm loans, which includes giving tips to convince officials, and the incidence is the highest in case of state-owned banks, a survey by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics found.

Non-bank financial institutions saw their default loans rise 11.71 percent year-on-year in 2014, which observers say is a by-product

Some 40 lakh new faces entered the job market between 2010 and 2013 and an equal number of people got jobs thanks to increasing economic activities in non-farm sectors, according to the Labour Force Survey 2013.

Development spending soared as much as 50 percent in February from the previous month in spite of the disrupting blockade and

Four state banks raised their performance last year following close monitoring by the central bank and the finance ministry's banking division.

Trade deficit more than doubled in the first seven months of the fiscal year from a year ago on the back of high import growth.