Sohel Parvez is a Business Editor at Asia International News. He specializes in a range of topics including energy and mining, business and economics, finance, and investment, with a particular focus on capital markets, economic policy, and regional economies. Sohel's insights and analyses have been featured in prominent publications such as The Daily Star.
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Sohel Parvez's focus is on the national economic landscape of Bangladesh, especially pertaining to topics such as economy, export-import trends, inflation, agriculture and banking. He heavily relies on citing data and government announcements for his articles.
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Month-on-month inflation stood at 9.42 percent at the end of May, with the 12-month average above 8.6 percent
Wheat imports surged to a record high of more than 73 lakh tonnes in the just-concluded fiscal year 2025-26 as the private sector capitalised on lower international prices.
Bangladesh spent 85 percent more on fuel imports in the first 11 months of the recently concluded fiscal year 2025-26 as higher global energy prices due mainly to the war in the Middle East pushed up the country's import bill.
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.
By: Sohel Parvez
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.
