Zina Tasreen

People do not lack strength; they lack will, the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo once said. The words perfectly describe the government’s attitude thus far towards fixing the banking sector.

Each month, Ayesha Amin, a housewife, aims to put Tk 5,000 of the money her husband hands over to her for the running of the house, in her savings account.

All eyes were on fever-stricken Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal as he stepped into parliament to unveil his maiden national budget yesterday.

The Bangladesh economy is taxing for take-off -- for its long-haul flight to the developed country club, with couple of stopovers in between.

The holy month of Ramadan that crescendos in Eid-ul-Fitr is undoubtedly the dearest for people in Bangladesh.

Credit card: two words the mention of which turn many into full-blown cynics. While it is undeniable that anyone who has a credit card risks running up too much debt -- a milestone that might take several years and lots of sacrifice to get rid of -- if used wisely the benefits can outweigh the downsides.

Debit cards are the happy medium between credit cards and cash -- one gets the convenience of carrying a card without the risk of

Technology is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts after the gift of life, eminent American physicist Freeman Dyson once said -- and

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.

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.

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.

South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics is working to set up a manufacturing plant in Bangladesh, in a development that is set to

Credit card: two words the mention of which turn many into full-blown cynics.

British statesman Winston Churchill once said that a pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity and an optimist

Bangladesh is ready to turn the corner for good and foreign investors could do well for themselves by hopping on

Policymakers, economists and private sector movers and shakers yesterday convened at the Asian financial hub, Singapore, to present