Budget

Budget for FY25 starts amid NBRs uphill battles, challenges

Shamsul Huda

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will face significant challenges in achieving its revenue targets for FY25, amid economic recession ...

Proposed Budget 2024-25: A look at what consumers missed out on

Md Khalilur Rahman Sajal

As the government exposes the proposed budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year, the nation is abuzz with analyses, debates, and ...

Budget yet to pass, many things can be revised: Finance Minister

Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday said that the government is considering all realistic criticism and suggestions regarding ...

Budget is full of good intensions but lacks directions: RAPID

Business Correspondent

Economists at a discussion on Thursday called for harmonization of policies to address inflation and sustained economic growth. They termed ...

MCCI, Pri Hold Post-Budget Discussion

Tight monetary policy vital to rein in inflation

Business Correspondent

Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur, Executive Director, Policy Research Institute (PRI) on Wednesday advocated for a for a tight monetary policy ...

Budget allocation for education falls short of expectations

Md Tahsinul Haque

Every year, the budget season initiates thorough deliberations and consultations regarding the anticipated outcomes for the education sector. However, in ...

Budget imaginative, reliant on bank borrowings, and looters' friendly: BNP

Observer Online Report

Rejecting the next fiscal's proposed budget outright, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has said that the entire budget is an imaginative, ...

Proposed Budget

BNP to give reaction Sunday

Observer Online Report

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will give its formal reaction to the proposed national budget for fiscal year 2024-25 on Sunday. ...

Post Budget Press Confce In City

Inflation will come down by year end, Mahmud hopes

Business Correspondent

Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said the size of the budget has been reduced so that there is no ...

Budget fails to address economic challenges: CPD

Business Correspondent

Economist of a private think tank body expressing disappointment with the unveiled national budget on Thursday calling it uninspired and ...

Budget 2024-25: Govt allocates Tk 778.86 crore for cultural affairs

Observer Online Desk

In the proposed 2024–25 financial year budget, Finance Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali proposed an allocation of Tk 778.86 crore ...

Budget Speech 2024-25

Development Budget

Budget 2024-25: Prices may go up and down

Observer Online Report

The prices of many products and services may be costlier or cheaper as Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on ...

Special Cabinet meeting on proposed National Budget for FY25 underway

Observer Online Desk

The special Cabinet meeting began on Thursday to approve the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2024-25, presided over ...

Budget FY 2024-25

Cigarette, mobile costs may increase

Observer Online Report

The cost of several goods and services may increase and decrease due to the changes in the imposition of duties ...

Leprosy: Why it deserves due attention in Budget

Md Sazedul Islam

Though a national health problem in the country, leprosy causes physical, social, economic and mental sufferings for the affected people. ...

Budget to see deficit of Tk 255,200 crore

Mizanur Rahman

Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will present next fiscals budget in parliament on June 6, with a deficit of ...

Budget should focus on inflation, unemployment

Motaher Hossain

The work of preparing the budget for the next financial year is almost finalized. In the meantime, FBCCI, the apex ...

Budget For Fiscal 2024-25

Social security sector to get increased allocation to cover 500,000 more beneficiaries

Mizanur Rahman

The current fiscal year is almost at the end. The budget for the new fiscal year will be presented in ...

Budget should focus on rising inflation

Letter To the Editor

Dear sir,Like every year, the government is going to present the budget for the upcoming financial year 2024-25. The budget ...

Budget in the time of aching inflation

As the fiscal year approaches its end, Bangladesh braces itself for a crucial juncture in its economic journey.With inflation surging, ...

Budget 2024-25: What can be expected?

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has proposed a standard VAT rate of 15 percent for many goods and services ...

Budget eyes curbing inflation, stabilizing market

Mizanur Rahman

In order to give relief to the people in the daily commodity market, matter of reducing the price of commodities ...

Budget session to begin June 5

Observer Online Report

The budget session of the national parliament will begin on June 5, the Parliament Secretariat said on May 20.It said ...

Budget for FY25 to be placed at JS on June 6

The national budget for fiscal year 2024-25 (FY25) is likely to be placed in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on June ...

Budget to rein in inflation, raise remittance and exports

Business Correspondent

State Minister for Finance Waseqa Ayesha Khan, has said that the budget for 2024-25 will emphasise on controlling inflation and ...

FBCCI presses for business-friendly Budget

Business Correspondent

Mahbubul Alam, the President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), the apex trade organization of ...

Budget-crunched Cuba to hike fuel prices over 500pc

HAVANA, Jan 9: Cubas cash-strapped government announced Monday that fuel prices will soar by more than 500 percent beginning February ...