The interim government appears to continue commercialising the country鈥檚 power and energy sector on the prescriptions of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, following the footsteps of successive governments, alleged the Consumers Association of Bangladesh on Wednesday...
Foreign investment does not pose a threat to national security, said Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, executive chairman of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority and the Bangladesh Economic Zone Authority...
The department of development studies under the faculty of arts and social sciences at Bangladesh University of Professionals organised a seminar titled 鈥楶olicy process, institutional reform and sustainable Development in Bangladesh: contemporary issues and challenges鈥� on its campus in Dhaka on Monday...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) on Tuesday said the country received foreign investment proposals worth US$1 billion in last nine months...
A HIGH allocation for women in the budget and the stringent oversight of the allocation can ensure a proper use of the budget funds meant for spending on women to attend to gender inequality. In the light of such a proposition, participants in a pre-budget dialogue, 鈥楢dvancing gender-responsive budgeting FFD4 Outcome鈥� that the Citizen鈥檚 Platform for SDGs...
Sonali Bank PLC on Sunday signed an agreement with the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority to speed up starting business, said a press release...
Bangladesh Investment Development Authority executive chairman Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun today said that they are working to process the first five essential services for starting a business in a single application by the end of next September...
NEARLY six months have passed since the Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement began a sit-in inside the partially destroyed Panthakunja Park, one of the capital鈥檚 last parks, calling for a halt to the construction of a section of the Dhaka elevated expressway from the Film Development Corporation to the Plassey crossing. Protesters say that the construction of the elevated...
The Bangladesh Water Development Board on Wednesday began its drive to remove illegal structures from the land acquired for the flood control embankment in Mirpur Bheribandh...
World Metrology Day will be observed on Tuesday across the country and elsewhere in the world, aiming to raise awareness of the importance of measurement science and its impact on various aspects of life, including business, trade, and sustainable development...
BANGLADESH is a country with a very high youth demographic, which holds the potential to become a powerful driver of national progress, provided they are effectively nurtured and integrated into development processes. However, despite this promise, a large segment of educated young individuals remains unemployed or underemployed. The government has...
Canada has expressed interest in investing in Bangladesh鈥檚 growing aviation sector, particularly in airport infrastructure development through soft loan facilities...
The National Economic Council at a meeting on Sunday approved the annual development programme of Tk聽2,30,000 crore for the 2025-26 financial year with lower allocations for the education and health sectors.
Asian Development Bank president Masato Kanda on Thursday assured Bangladesh鈥檚 finance adviser聽 Salehuddin Ahmed of more concessional loans.
AS THE negotiation between Bangladesh and the International Monetary Fund over the release of the fourth and fifth tranches of the $4.7 billion bailout package that the international lending agency approved in 2023 hangs over a few issues and the interim government has sought more concessional loans from other agencies, especially the Asian Development Bank...
The Planning Commission at an extended meeting on Tuesday set the size of annual development programme for the 2025-26 financial year at Tk聽2,30,000 crore.
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has urged the Asian Development Bank to extend more assistance in the areas of digital inclusion, climate action, regional integration and sustainable financing.
On the sidelines of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank, Bangladesh has strengthened its development cooperation with key international financial partners through high-level bilateral meetings...
The Asian Development Bank gave a statement in response to the coverage of a press conference in which the multilateral development bank was accused of locking Bangladesh in costly fossil fuels...
Bangladesh Open University on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding with National Skills Development Authority to enhance skills of students and strengthen industry-academia collaboration and foster mutual cooperation in developing a skilled workforce...
The 鈥楤usiness Development Meeting-2025鈥� of Karmasangsthan Bank was held in Patuakhali on Friday with the participation of regional and branch managers and field officers of Karmasangsthan Bank in Barisal, Patuakhali and Pirojpur regions...
THE absence of a quality control mechanism in the power sector has led to extra fuel costs in power generation. A recent Power Development Board analysis shows that some plants consume up to 90 per cent more fuel than others do. The finding indicates an overall power management failure in stopping the leak of the already scanty supplies of imported fuels...
IN THE United Nations General Assembly of 2000, heads of member states signed the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), committing to a set of measurable targets ranging from reducing extreme poverty and hunger to promoting gender equality and lowering maternal and child mortality by 2015. As a UN member state, Bangladesh made notable progress...
ASHIK Chowdhury, the executive chairman of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority, has become a strong advocate for a reform agenda aimed at fast-tracking foreign direct investment, deregulation, public-private partnerships, and labour flexibility. These new BIDA proposals, however framed as pragmatic instruments of development, express the deepest...
About 83 per cent of the investments by the Asian Development Bank in electricity generation since 1973 has gone into building fossil fuel-based power plants in Bangladesh, revealed an analysis of ADB data.
Bangladesh Maritime University held an international seminar titled Blue Economy: Unlocking the Potential of Oceans for Sustainable Development of Bangladesh at the Senaprangan, Dhaka Cantonment on Monday...
鈥楤usiness Development Meeting-2025鈥� was held in Dhaka on Saturday with the participation of regional, branch managers and field officers of Karmasangsthan Bank鈥檚 Dhaka, Dhaka North, Gazipur and Narayanganj regions...
THIS is unfortunate that the capacity charge 鈥� the money that the Power Development Board pays power-sector investors even when the plants do not produce electricity, with an aim to cover the loans that the plants receive, along with interests, salaries of the employees and returns on the equity 鈥� continues even after the political changeover of August 5, 2024, with the...
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority has urged the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission to revise the recently announced gas price hike, saying that otherwise, it would affect the economic momentum.聽..
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Construction Materials Division of Anwar Group of Industries, the country鈥檚 leading local industrial conglomerate, and Bay Developments Limited, a renowned name in Bangladesh鈥檚 real estate sector...