China’s foreign trade rebounded in May as total imports and exports went up 9.6 percent year on year to 3.45 trillion yuan on top of April’s 0.1-percent expansion, official data showed Thursday.In the first five months of 2022, the country’s foreign tr…
Bangladesh Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will unveil a Tk 6.80 trillion (Tk 6.80 lakh crore) national budget for the financial year 2022-2023 in Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday.The size of the budget will be about 15% of the country’s gross domestic pr…
Love knows no geographical boundaries, and the story of 27-year-old Bangladeshi man and 26-year-old Mauritian woman is the ideal example.Mustakin Fakir of Faridpur fell in love with Mauritian woman Sohela brought up in a Muslim family in Port Luis in 2…
Authorities on Thursday imposed prohibitory orders in the district’s Belkuchi upazila, with two rival factions of the ruling Awami League’s local unit calling for human chains at Chala bus stand at the same time.The orders under Section 144 of CrPC, wh…
The power and energy sector received Tk. 26,066 crore for new fiscal year 2022-23, down by 1,418 crore, from the outgoing fiscal year 2021-22.Announcing the new allocation in his budget speech, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said that one of the ma…
An advance tax waiver has been proposed in the budget for 2022-23 fiscal for private entrepreneurs, who wish to import gold through legal channels adhering to rules and regulations.Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal made the announcement in this regard…
Bottled soybean oil prices have jumped to Tk205 per litre, an increase by Tk 7.The new price of soybean came into effective on Thursday, the day the national budget for FY2022-23 was placed in the Parliament.On May 5, the price of soybean oil rose by T…
In the proposed budget for the next 2022-23 financial year, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday has proposed an allocation of Tk 637 crore for the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.The proposed allocation is Tk 58 crore more than the revised budg…
The allocation for the Defence Ministry in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2022-23, has been increased by Tk 2669 crore, a 7.1 percent increase, from that of the outgoing fiscal 2021-22.Tk 40,360 crore has been proposed for the Defence Ministry and…
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said that US$ 80 billion is being planned for investment by 2030 to achieve climate resilience.Presenting his plan in parliament in his budget speech on Thursday, he said the government is going to implement the ‘…
Women empowerment and child development sector will receive an allocation of Tk 4,290 crore, for fiscal year 2022-2023 which was Tk 4,190 crore in outgoing fiscal year 2021-2022.Proposing the allocation, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said they hav…
With ebbing Covid-19 pandemic under control the Parliament on Thursday got back its old atmosphere when the finance minister presented his budget proposals for FY2022-23.Though the Covid health protocols were still in force the members looked relaxed a…
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