Dhaka, April 12 -- Bangladesh is facing mounting fiscal pressure as capital expenditure continues to decline, raising concerns over the country's growth trajectory and poverty reduction efforts. Anal... Read More
Dhaka, March 14 -- An Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) mission has assured Bangladesh of providing US$1.0 billion in loan for setting up a 3.0-million-tonne-capacity oil refinery, officials say and hop... Read More
Dhaka, March 12 -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has urged Bangladesh's newly elected government to make a swift decision on the long-delayed Airport-Gazipur Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, which ... Read More
Dhaka, March 8 -- The government is set to hold a crucial meeting with Japanese development partner to try to resolve a long-running dispute that has stalled work on Bangladesh's first underground met... Read More
Dhaka, March 7 -- As the Mideast crisis stokes concern about fuel security, Bangladesh's state-run energy corporation Petrobangla has requested an additional US$250-million loan guarantee from the Wor... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 24 -- Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has directed the Planning Commission (PC) to review all ongoing development projects to assess their relevance to the BNP's... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 17 -- Bangladesh's Annual Development Programme (ADP) implementation is still on a weak trajectory as the implementing agencies have failed to revamp the usual execution of development pro... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is likely to provide the second-tranche loan worth US$300 million for the long-delayed Dhaka-Sylhet Highway construction project, which has been strug... Read More