Sohel Parvez

Bank loans tied up under court stay orders jumped more than eightfold over the three years to the end of 2025, reaching Tk 182,419 crore, according to a Bangladesh Bank (BB) report.

Govt data shows 1 lakh hectares, roughly the size of Munshiganj, turned saline in 15 years

The amount rose by 80 percent to Tk 182,419 crore by the end of 2025

Meena Bazar, one of the country’s biggest supermarket chains, is in talks to acquire its peer Agora in a bid to scale up its business volume to strengthen its foothold.

According to BMET, more than 9.69 lakh people left Bangladesh for overseas jobs during the last fiscal year, down 5 percent from a year earlier

The number of Bangladeshis leaving for overseas jobs fell to a five-year low in the recently concluded fiscal year 2025-26 as demand from the Middle East weakened amid uncertainty following the US-Israel war on Iran.

According to Bangladesh's Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) more than 969,000 people left Bangladesh for overseas jobs during the last fiscal year, down 5 percent from the previous year.

As load shedding now lasts for around half the day in some areas, these businesses are facing serious disruption.

Bangladesh has barely used its three trade remedy tools -- anti-dumping, countervailing duty and safeguard measures -- against unfair imports even as it remains a frequent target of such measures abroad, a Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI) study has found.

The government's net borrowing from the banking system stood at Tk 165,538 crore in fiscal year (FY) 2025-26, far exceeding its plan for the year amid falling foreign financing and lower-than-expected revenue collection, according to Bangladesh Bank (BB) data.