A Tk 3.0-trillion Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year is getting final consideration today with several-fold increases in education and health allocations with the focus on human-capital development, officials say. However, the highest development-budget sanction goes for t

After the end of the project's tenure, the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has decided to cut the procurement of some dredgers, a key component of the scheme, as execution drags on for seven years, insiders said on Saturday. Since the project expired in June last, the state-run

Constructing residential and non-residential buildings alone costs 16.10 per cent of the funds in the upcoming development budget as the interim government has made the highest allocation for this purpose, insiders said Friday. Such penchant for buildings is evident from a project proposed in adva

A tenure-expired container-terminal project, conceived by the ousted regime, is set to be placed today for interim government's seal for revival by almost doubling the time and cost, insiders said Tuesday. Although Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) had failed to kick-start