Tariff hikes make state power cos profitable
Shawdesh Desk: State-owned power and energy companies continue to make profits or reduce their losses by frequently increasing their prices. The Bangladesh Economic Review released on Thursday showed that Bangladesh ReadMore
Budget lacks steps to meet challenges: CPD
Shawdesh Desk: Independent think tank Centre for Policy Dialogue said on Friday that the proposed budget for the financial year 2024–25 failed to offer concrete measures to overcome the ongoing ReadMore
Questions on budget draw minister’s ire
Shawdesh desk: Finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Friday that he was disappointed with the questions made by journalists about proposed budgetary measures for FY25 and asked them ReadMore
Main challenge to contain inflation: PM
Shawdesh Desk: Prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina on Friday said that taming inflation was a big challenge for the government. ‘The big challenge for us is that ReadMore
18 injured as AL factions clash in Ctg
Shawdesh Desk: An altercation between two factions of the Awami League turned violent in Anwara, Chattogram, leaving 18 activists, including professor MA Mannan Chowdhury, president of the upazila Awami League, ReadMore
Legalisation of undisclosed money to encourage corruption: BNP
Shawdesh desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that the proposed budget would encourage corruption. He said, ‘This is a budget ReadMore
Perils and promise of emerging multipolar world
Shawdesh Desk: The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the west in industrialisation are now making up for lost ReadMore
