The immediate challenge for the proposed interim government will be restoring the economy suffering heavy disruption over the student-led mass protests culminated in the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government...
Finance minister Rachel Reeves on Monday was to claim Britain is 鈥榖roke and broken鈥� when she was to reveal the findings of an assessment into the country鈥檚 public finances ahead of a forthcoming budget...
Germany鈥檚 ruling coalition struck a 2025 budget deal Friday after tough talks that nearly toppled the government, with chancellor Olaf Scholz vowing the country would remain...
Rajshahi University on Tuesday announced its annual budget of Tk 518.95 crore for the financial year 2024-25.
Leaders of Amar Bangladesh Party asserted on Monday that the current Awami League government had no legitimate right to pass the national budget in parliament, as lawmakers were not elected by the people...
THE Finance Bill 2024 has been passed. But the budget for the 2025 financial year in its passage has retained a controversial provision that economists have always been opposed to. The passage of the bill has also failed to handle a few other issues that were considered beneficial for the economy...
The Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday passed the Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget for FY25 setting a goal for achieving 6.75 per cent gross domestic product growth and...
Jahangirnagar University announced its annual budget of Tk 318.44 crore for the financial year 2024-25 on Saturday, with Tk 7.22 crore allocated for research and innovation...
Jahangirnagar University announced its annual budget of Tk 318.44 crore for the financial year 2024-25 on Saturday, with Tk 7.22 crore allocated for research and innovation....
The Chattogram City Corporation announced a budget of Tk 1981.52 crore for the financial year 2024-25 on Thursday...
The Madan municipality in Netrakona announced the budget for the financial year 2024-25 and organised a public hearing on Wednesday, said a press release...
THE likely increase in the losses of the Bangladesh Power Development Board by almost 200 per cent in 2025 suggests a deplorable absence of measures to amend the power policy, which is burdened by, among others, an abnormal level of overcapacity and an absurd capacity charge system...
The National Garment Workers Federation on Monday demanded a special allocation in the proposed national budget for the financial year 2024-25 for introduction of rationing for the garment workersin Bangladesh....
THE proposed budgetary provision for legalising illicit income has drawn criticism of economists, civil society actors and, even, ruling Awami League lawmakers. The proposal says that no authority can raise any questions if people willing to legalise undisclosed wealth pay taxes at fixed rates for immovable property such as flats and land and 15 per cent tax on other assets...
The syndicate of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has approved budget of Tk聽1 thousand 54 crore 33 lakh 90 thousand for the financial year...
Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday said that the government was considering all realistic criticism and suggestions regarding the national budget before passing it in the parliament...
Independent lawmaker Md Nasser Shahrear Zahedee on Thursday criticised finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali for reducing subsidies in agriculture in the proposed budget for the financial year 2024-25...
Research and Policy Integration for Development, a private think tank, has identified lack of proper policy direction in the proposed budget for the 2024-25 financial year against the government鈥檚 intent to address macroeconomic challenges...
The Bangladesh Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal on Thursday termed the proposed budget for the financial year 2024-25 as looter-friendly and said that it would increase sufferings of the ordinary people.....
The budget allocation for the country鈥檚 55 public universities has been reduced for the financial year 2024-25...
Speakers in a post-budget discussion on Wednesday said that the country had been trapped into inefficiency while corruption was going to take on an institutional shape owing to the immoral scope of the legalisation of undisclosed assets...
THIS has been a good few months for sensational media items and Bangladesh appears to be choking with such content which readers love. First, there was the murder and mince-meating of a member of parliament in a Kolkata apartment possibly over a fallout of smuggling and other deals gone sour and over the share of profits, etc...
Speakers, including economists, emphasised the importance of allocating a dedicated budget to support marginalised populations, such as rural women and ethnic minorities, during a discussion on Tuesday...
POOR allocation for sectors such as social safety, education, health and agriculture as proposed in the budget for the 2024鈥�25 financial year is concerning. The proposed budget would hit the disadvantaged hardest. Economists at a discussion that the Citizen鈥檚 Platform for SDGs organised...
The Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh on Tuesday called for continuation of existing VAT exemption on tour operator services, which is planned to be withdrawn in the proposed national budget announced on June 6...
The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod, a partner of the ruling Awami League led-alliance, on Sunday termed the proposed budget placed by the finance minister in the parliament as traditional and said that it would widen the gap between the rich and the poor...
Information technology sector leaders on Sunday expressed their concerns over some provisions in the proposed budget for the 2024-25 financial year, saying that the removal of tax exemptions for cloud services and IT process outsourcing could hamper the sector鈥檚 journey toward achieving self-reliance...
Dhaka stocks witnessed a big fall on Sunday, the first trading session after the announcement of the proposed national budget, as panic driven investors continued to offload shares to protect their funds amid the prolonged downward trend on the market amid...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that the proposed 2024鈥�25 national budget was not only anti-people, but...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, alleged on Saturday that fresh arrangements had been made in the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 for fresh looting of the nation鈥檚 wealth.....