20pc domestic debt could fuel inflation
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…
Read More »Budget means increase of prices of necessary goods
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,…
Read More »Gold smuggling and murders on India-Bangladesh border
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…
Read More »6.75 pc growth target high is ambitious
Says Dr. Atiur Rahman Staff Correspondent: The former governor of Bangladesh Bank Atiur Rahmanconsiders the target of 6.75 percent growth in the next fiscal year’s budget ambitious. He said that the inflation has been more than…
Read More »Budgets never reduce inflation
Dr. Virupaksha Pal: No matter how much our finance ministers say that their main objective in the budget is to reduce inflation, it is just rhetoric. Or talk for the purpose of political popularity. Budget is…
Read More »Budget supports special groups
To increase public burden Enayet Karim: Bangladesh was one of the top countries in terms of the increase in the number of global riches for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2020 in the annual report…
Read More »PM in New Delhi to attend Modi’s oath-taking ceremony
Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday set foot in New Delhi for the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Council of Ministers.As the first “distinguished” guest, PM Hasina was warmly received…
Read More »Default loan of SoBs increased abnormally
Tk 6,805 cr defaulted in 3-month Mahfuz Emran: The amount of non-performing loans of state-owned commercial banks has increased further. Last January-March; In three months, the defaulted loans of banks in this sector have increased by…
Read More »10 police officers ‘fed’ ex-IG Benazir corrupt ways allege
Staff Correspondent: A core ‘team’ of eight to ten trusted subordinate police officers worked to extract hundreds of crores of money for Benazir Ahmed when he helmed the Bangladesh Police and the dreaded Rapid Action Battalion…
Read More »Legalizing black money conflicts with anti-graft policy of AL government
Staff Correspondent: The policy of ‘zero tolerance against corruption’ is one of the 14 priorities in the proposed budget for the financial year 2024-25. At the same time, the opportunity to whiten black money has been…
Read More »BPC earns Tk 55,404 cr net profit in 10 years
Selling oil most profitable business in country Mahfuja Mukul: The international market is downward, but the price of fuel oil is not reduced in the country. However, if the global market increases, the price in the…
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