Export earnings dropped for the first time in five months in March because of a slowdown in the global economy following the severe impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war and Covid-19, official figures showed yesterday.

Export earnings soared 51.18 per cent year-on-year to $4.73 billion in April because of higher shipment of garment items amid gradual recovery of the global supply chain from the severe fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bangladesh is on the right track to achieve the target of raising its ICT export to $5 billion by 2021, ICT industry leaders said yesterday.

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday expressed hope that annual income from export of the country will hit $60 billion by 2021.

Bangladesh seeks $1 billion export earnings from IT outsourcing as it makes its mark at Gitex Technology Week 2015.