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Govt seeks six months to curb inflation

Shawdesh Desk: The government has proposed the reintroduction of undisclosed money legalisation scopes in the new national budget to appease businessmen, officials said on Friday. In the traditional post-budget press

Tariff hikes make state power cos profitable

Shawdesh Desk: State-owned power and energy companies continue to make profits or reduce their losses by frequently increasing their prices. The Bangladesh Economic Review released on Thursday showed that Bangladesh

Budget lacks steps to meet challenges: CPD

Shawdesh Desk: Independent think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue said on Friday that the proposed budget for the financial year 2024–25 failed to offer concrete measures to overcome the ongoing

Main challenge to contain inflation: PM

Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina on Friday said that taming inflation was a big challenge for the government. ‘The big challenge for us is that

Legalisation of undisclosed money to encourage corruption: BNP

Shawdesh desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that the proposed budget would encourage corruption. He said, ‘This is a budget

GDP growth estimated at 6.75pc in national budget FY2024-25

Shawdesh Desk: Finance Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Thursday said that it was expected that pursuing all the ‘prudent policy measures’ would help achieve GDP growth of 6.75 per cent

Finance minister begins unveiling Tk 7,97,000cr national budget

Shawdesh Desk: Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has started placing the Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget of Bangladesh in parliament for the fiscal year 2024-25. The finance minister began

Cabinet approves proposed National Budget for FY 2024-25

Shawdesh Desk: The Cabinet, at a special meeting on Thursday, approved the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2024-25. The meeting was presided over by prime minister Sheikh Hasina