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MEETING WITH YUNUS SUNDAY: Senior Treasury officials in US delegation signals focus on economy

UNB , Dhaka: US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu arrived in Dhaka on Saturday wrapping up his India tour, with

India’s forex reserves reach record high of $689.24 bn

TDS Desk: India’s forex reserves jumped $5.2 billion to a fresh all-time high of $689.24 billion for the week ended 30 August, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday.

FSIB hopes to turn around by December

UNB, Dhaka: Bangladesh’s banking sector fell into an abyss from which there seemed to be no way out at some point in the last decade. Ask insiders, particularly bankers, and

Import dependency, financial mismanagement behind intolerable load shedding

TDS Desk: The massive ongoing 2000-megawatt (MW) load shedding has stemmed from severe financial mismanagement and excessive import dependence left by the Awami League government which could not afford to

No shortage of fertilisers in the country: agriculture adviser

TDS Desk: Agriculture and Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury Saturday (September 14) said that there is sufficient stock of fertilisers in the country until December,

Indian govt lifts ban on onion, basmati exports

Int’l Desk: The Indian government on Friday (September 13) scrapped the minimum export prices (MEPs) on onion and basmati it had imposed last year to cool domestic food inflation, according