April2025

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Saturday, India negotiated energy and defense agreements with neighboring Sri Lanka, a move perceived as a response to competitor China’s expanding regional influence. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the president of...

Finance Adviser Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed today said the new tariffs imposed by the United States (US) authorities will not be difficult for the country’s economy to manage. “The government has taken necessary initiatives to negotiate with...

In the National Special Economic Zone (NSEZ) in Chattogram, twelve further businesses in the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) Economic Zone (EZ) are anticipated to begin commercial operations by 2025. With a total estimated investment...

China’s sweeping retaliation against President Donald Trump’s steep tariffs is expected to have a negative impact on US manufactured goods, petroleum, and agricultural exports. Both sets of measures are scheduled to go into force next week....

Despite being excluded from US President Donald Trump’s list of retaliatory tariffs, Mexican equities fell 4.87 percent on Friday as global markets panicked over the potential start of a trade war. Two days after Trump announced...

As new US tariffs caused steep declines in international stock markets on Friday, President Donald Trump promised that his policies would be upheld and that investors in the US would profit. “To many investors coming into...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the adviser for the environment, forests, and climate change, stated today that waste should never be burned, not even in the Matuail Sanitary Landfill. Following her tour of the Matuail dump in Dhaka,...

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra met with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday at Bangkok’s Shangri-La Hotel. Abul Kalam Azad Majumder, the deputy press secretary for the chief adviser, informed BSS that during the...

The meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus has been hailed as a “significant moment” for Bangladesh-India relations by Bangladesh Ambassador to Mexico Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey. “Bangladesh is reclaiming...

Bangladesh Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today met Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harinia Amarasuriya on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok. The two leaders discussed issues of mutual interest and vowed to expand trade and...