Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali placed Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget for 2024-25 in parliament.

It was a shock for British Chancellor of the Exchequer Ward Hunt when he stood up to deliver his budget speech in the House of Commons in 1868, opened the briefcase, and discovered he had left his speech at home.

The government has set an ambitious target of setting up 100 economic zones in the next 15 years, says the finance minister in his budget speech today.