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Bangladesh Railway plans first electric train project worth Tk 38.23b,

Bangladesh, Sept. 16 -- Bangladesh Railway is set to take its first major step towards electrifying the country's rail network with a Tk38.23-billion project to build an electric train line connecting... Read More


Bangladesh Railway plans first electric train project worth Tk 38.23b

Bangladesh, Sept. 16 -- Bangladesh Railway is set to take its first major step towards electrifying the country's rail network with a Tk38.23-billion project to build an electric train line connecting... Read More


BR proposes Tk 106m for project staff allowances

Bangladesh, Sept. 12 -- Bangladesh Railway (BR) has proposed Tk 106-million fund for allowances of its officials and employees under a rail-line installation project doubling the cost than the origina... Read More


Palm oil imports far outpace soybean oil

Bangladesh, Sept. 11 -- Bangladesh's imports of palm oil far exceeded those of soybean oil in monetary terms in the last fiscal year, despite soybean oil being the preferred cooking oil among househol... Read More


Agro-exports fall short of $1.0b again

Bangladesh, Sept. 8 -- Bangladesh's agro-export earnings fell short of the US$1.0-billion mark for the fourth consecutive year in FY2025-26, despite repeated government initiatives to expand and moder... Read More


FY26 foreign aid commitment drops 37pc

Bangladesh, Aug. 6 -- Bangladesh's overall external assistance confirmation dropped by 37 per cent in the 2025-26 fiscal year, with India not committing even a single penny, officials say. Advertisem... Read More


Transition-time depressed dev works diminish ADP execution

Bangladesh, July 31 -- Depressed development works in the transition time are among reasons that diminished Bangladesh's Annual Development Programme (ADP)-implementation rate to a historic low of 67.... Read More


Dhaka rules out alternative currency payments with Moscow

Bangladesh, July 30 -- Bangladesh cannot facilitate a second-currency-payment system with Russia outside the US dollar at this moment due to international financial regulations, officials say. Howeve... Read More


Development spending dips to a very worrying level

Bangladesh, July 27 -- Government agencies exposed their weakest capacity in implementing development programme as an unprecedented slowdown in public spending left over Tk 1.0 trillion unspent until ... Read More


Bangladesh getting 3yr time extension for LDC graduation

Bangladesh, July 23 -- Bangladesh is set to get three-year extension for graduation from the least-developed country (LDC) status as the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is going to... Read More