The coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented crisis that has upended the world in 2020, has slowed Bangladesh's journey on the ‘highway of development’, but not thrown the country off track. The construction of major infrastructures under government’s mega projects, such as the Padma Bridge, Dhaka Metro Rail an...
While the world is reeling under an economic crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh’s economy was able to escape a contraction in 2020 and its annual rate of GDP growth will continue to accelerate throughout the 2021-25 period, so says a think tank. Between 2021 and 2025, Bangladesh’s annual rate of GDP growth will accelera...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the brand new Dash 8-400 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, expressing her conviction to establish a strong regional connectivity cashing in on the country’s geographical location in Southeast Asia. “We want to establish strong connectivity with neighboring countries ...
Bangladesh has moved two notches up in the human development index — to 133 — compared to last year, said a new report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report, titled The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene, launched in Bangladesh on Monday morning, six days after the global launch, includes ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the finance ministry to roll out a plan on another shot of stimulus package to further cushion economy from the pandemic shock amid soaring cases in winter as the world fights its way back from the financial crisis. The prime minister ordered the fiscal stimulus package at a meeting on finalising the 8th F...
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