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The top economic policymaking body has revised a good number of projects in the first year of the government, or one-fourth of the total approved in its second term, officials said.

Oil prices soared more than four percent Friday and equities reversed early gains following news that the US had killed a top Iranian general, fanning fresh fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region.

Bangladesh’s economy will surpass that of Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore with its presence as the 30th largest economy in the world by 2024, says a global report released by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), reports UNB.

Israeli agricultural damages totalled 265 million new shekels (about 77 million US dollars) in 2019, according to a government report published Wednesday.

Bangladesh will import some 1.4 million tonnes of crude petroleum oil from Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi in the year of 2020, reports UNB.

A government project is set to boost the capacity of the country’s second busiest seaport of Mongla.

With great excitement Mohammad Sher Ali and fellow farmers in Panisara of southwestern upazila Jhikargacha began plucking rose, gladiolus, tuberose and gerbera in abundance from earlier this week.

The prime minister of Mongolia Ukhnaa Khurelsukh said the country’s economy grew around 7.3 per cent year on year in 2019, compared to 1.2 per cent in 2016.

A government body has suggested appointing ‘tax detectives’ in Bangladesh missions abroad, updating the double-taxation deal with Switzerland and exchanging views with the countries where most of the laundered money goes.

Gold prices rose to their highest in more than two months on Monday in thin year-end trading as the dollar dipped and US military strikes in the Middle East supported safe-haven buying.