Although the prices of some daily commodities have decreased, middle- and low-income families are still struggling to make ends meet due to the recent hike in prices of essential grocery items such as eggs, chicken, onions, and potatoes.
Despite an upward trend in the overall catch, year-on-year growth rate of hilsa production has been declining in recent years. The reasons include illegal netting of brood and jatka hilsa, widespread use of banned gillnet and the impact of climate change such as erratic rainfalls.
The drop in the price of rice and flour could not bring relief among low income people as the vegetable price is soaring.
With the consumers already feeling the pinch of the soaring prices of essentials, most of the spices are becoming pricier ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha.
The government is set to distribute 10 kilograms of rice to each of the 1.25 crore ultra-poor and destitute families ahead of Eid-ul-Azha to soften the blow of a spiralling inflation.
The government is set to form the National Pension Authority (NPA) to execute the Universal Pension Scheme formulated to provide pension services for the common people.
Although tax returns are a key document for investigating illegal wealth, the Income Tax Bill 2023 proposes making it impossible for Anti-Corruption Commission officials to access a suspect’s tax files without a court order.
The government’s high-ups have talked about their “firm stances” against graft to protect the country’s GDP on multiple occasions. However, there is little reflection of that stance in the latest budget disclosure as to how the government will curb corruption and money laundering.
Scientists at Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) have successfully manufactured a highly suitable and affordable combine rice harvester.
Bangladesh is gunning to become a half-a-trillion-dollar economy next fiscal year buoyed by a successful vaccination campaign and a steady growth in agriculture and industry.
Affluent people and political leaders, instead of the poor, are often the beneficiaries of the Dhaka city mayors’ discretionary funds that the mayors set up going beyond the city corporation act.
The government has decided to lodge stricter legislation on illegal sand extractors by amending the existing law, keeping a provision of blacklisting contractors permanently and confiscating their equipment along with their lease money for violating the law.
The stock of some high-value sea fish species has depleted over the last three decades due to excessive fishing that also damages the ecosystem of the marine environment, threatening survival of other aquatic lives.
Officials of FAS Finance and Investment who declined to sign off on loan applications to fictitious organisations were punished with no promotion or transferred to remote offices by rogue banker PK Halder’s men.
Apparently giving in to pressure, the government has decided to allow export-oriented factories to reopen from August 1 amid the ongoing “strict lockdown” enforced to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Saudi Arabia’s recent amendment to a law allowing non-citizens to run businesses without local sponsors has opened up opportunities for Bangladeshi traders in the kingdom.
The government has turned down the plea from businesspeople, including garment manufacturers, for letting them resume operation of factories, fearing a further surge in Covid deaths and infections.
The government has decided to set up more vaccination centres across the country to speed up the inoculation drive especially in remote areas amid a surge in Covid deaths and infections.
