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Bangladesh's trade with China heavily imbalanced

Dhaka, March 29 -- Bangladesh's foreign trade with China is heavily imbalanced as the country's export to the East-Asian nation has declined in recent years, official data shows. Bangladesh exported ... Read More


Jul-Feb ADP execution lowest in 14 years

Dhaka, March 17 -- The government agencies are not seemingly functioning properly as their development programme-implementation rate in the first eight months of the current financial year was the low... Read More


ADB lending $500m bailout for BD banks

Dhaka, March 14 -- Bangladesh's interim government hopes to get a US$500-million bailout package from the ADB for the banking sector as some banks seemed in disarray following past forged lending and ... Read More


Planning commission under pressure to green-light MRT-5 south project

Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- The planning commission is under pressure to approve the MRT-5 southern line project, although it was sent back more than a month ago for bloated costs and having less priority than ... Read More


Dip in industrial output dents FY24 growth to 4.22pc

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- Industrial output saw a massive plunge from the ousted Sheikh Hasina government's doctored statistics in the FY24 revised export earnings estimation, causing Bangladesh's overall eco... Read More


Huge public funds drained through misdeeds

Dhaka, Feb. 8 -- Prolonged and corrupt processes of land valuation and acquisition and duplication of feasibility study on similar projects proved ploys for misuse of public funds during the past regi... Read More