The plan comes as $42.85b foreign funds remained unused at start of current FY
The BNP submitted its feedback yesterday. So far, 15 other parties have submitted theirs.
It has been seven months since the interim government took office. During this time, the caretaker administration has been working to revive the political process and strengthen state institutions. Meanwhile, participants in the July uprising have floated a new political party.
Culture adviser Farooki and Shilpakala chief Syed Jamil exchange barbs
With the interim government having completed its first six months in office, all eyes are now on the series of dialogues with political parties to reach a consensus on reforms to be carried out.
Four-year-old Ibrahim Islam was walking to his school in Kushtia town with his grandmother around 8:00am on Sunday. Perhaps his mind was buzzing with excitement, thinking about the games he would play with his friends.
Nahid Islam, adviser to the interim government, spoke with The Daily Star on the nation's key challenges and the way forward.
Seismic. That is perhaps the one word close enough to describe Bangladesh’s transformation in 2024.
“I never imagined that I would have a heart problem.”
Twenty-two years have come and gone since her husband was shot to death, but Selina Akhter Lucky has all but given up hope for justice for the brutal murder.
Although attacks on freethinkers and bloggers, and their murders by suspected Islamic militants have decreased significantly due to multiple anti-militant crackdowns, none of the families of those killed has gotten complete justice yet.
Six minutes was all it took a BRTC bus to cross the 6.15km bridge over the Padma river yesterday.
One afternoon in October 2011, Md Shafiqul Islam, then an additional chief engineer at the Roads and Highways Department, was tensely pacing the corridors of the erstwhile communications ministry, contemplating joining the Padma bridge project.
There are some epic moments that make a nation proud.
The need for a bridge over the mighty Padma River may not have been felt so dearly by people other than those who have been born and bred in the southwestern part of Bangladesh.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal proposed to withdraw the existing 5 percent supplementary duty on all types of polythene bags, plastic bags (including oven plastic bags) and wrapping materials made of polyethylene.
The need for expanding the coverage of social protection schemes with new approaches has never been felt so badly than now as people are struggling to keep their heads above water amid one crisis on top of another.
Road crashes have become the norm in Bangladesh, claiming lives on a regular basis
