Bangladesh

Ayub Ali, Ctg: In the announced budget of the fiscal year 2024-25, an allocation of Tk 17,509.27 crore has been kept for 46 development projects of Chattogram. Analysis shows that almost all the projects that have been allocated are ongoing. There is nothing new.According to the budget analysis, most of…

Staff Correspondent: Speakers at a meeting on Monday emphasized the critical role of the media in implementing the solid waste management road-map in Dhaka. The meeting, organized by Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) under its Dhaka Calling Project, highlighted the importance of executing the four-point road-map to address the city’s waste…

Zarif Mahmud: The size of the government budget is increasing every year. The budget deficit is increasing along with it. To meet the shortfall, the government is regularly taking loans from domestic sources such as banks and savings bonds. The amount of foreign loans is also increasing for the implementation…

Staff Correspondent: No restaurant in Dhanmondi residential area have proper license from the City Corporation, Rajuk and Fire Service department.After the terrible fire tragedy in the ‘Green Cozy Cottage’ building on Bailey Road in Dhaka, several related organizations including City Corporation, Rajuk and Fire Service raided restaurants in Dhanmondi and…

Mahfuja Mukul: The housing sector has been in turmoil for several years due to various reasons. The Russia-Ukraine war and high inflation in the country have further fueled the sector. Added to this is the increase in the price of construction materials. All in all, flat-apartment prices have already risen…

Mahfuz Emran: To meet the deficit, the government will take a loan of Tk 160,900 crore from internal sources, which is about 20 percent of the proposed budget. The President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) Mohammad Forkan Uddin FCA has expressed fear that such a large…

Amin Al Rashid: Every year at the beginning of June, when the budget for the next financial year is presented in the National Parliament, a very common question is raised in the mind of the public, which is the price of which things will increase?After the independence of Bangladesh, the…

Chandan Nandy, Kolkata: Less than two hours before sunset on January 17, three men, their woolen shawls pulled over their faces, crept out of a row of bushes less than half a kilometre from the India-Bangladesh border in Baghadanga village under Maheshpur upazila in Jhenaidah district of Bangladesh.One of them…