Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has started placing a Taka 7,90,000 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2025–26 which is 12.7 percent of the GDP. This is the country’s 54th budget and the first of Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus led interim government. Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has started unveiling the budget speech from 3:00 pm in a pre-recorded broadcast on Bangladesh Television (BTV) and Bangladesh Betar. Out of the total budget size, the operating cost and other expenditure have been estimated at Taka 5,60,000 crore while the Annual Development Programme (ADP) has been estimated at Taka 2,30,000 crore.
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The Council of Advisers at a special meeting today approved the revised national budget for 2024-25, the proposed national budget for the fiscal 2025-26 and the Finance Bill 2025-26. Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus presided over the meeting held at the cabinet room of the Chief Adviser’s Office at Tejgaon here, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed and other advisers attended the meeting.
The Second round of dialogue of the National Consensus Commission with the political parties will begin today. The dialogue will begin at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital at 4:30 pm. Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will inaugurate the dialogue, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy here on Sunday. He said all the political parties and stakeholders involved in the reform process have been invited to join the dialogue. Azad said it is expected that the July Charter could be finalised through this dialogue. The commission was formed…
Lebanon’s health ministry said Sunday that Israeli strikes on the country’s south killed two people, as the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members in the latest raids despite a ceasefire. The ministry said an “Israeli enemy” strike targeted a motorcycle in Arnoun, a village in the Nabatiyeh region about five kilometres (three miles) from the Israeli border, killing one person. It said another person was killed in an Israeli raid that “targeted a vehicle on the Debl road” in the Bint Jbeil district. Another strike on a car in nearby Beit Lif wounded one person, the ministry said. The…
Finance Adviser Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed is scheduled to present tomorrow the national budget for fiscal year 2025-26 before the nation. The pre-recorded budget speech will now be broadcast at 3:00 pm tomorrow instead of earlier scheduled 4:00 pm on that day through Bangladesh Television (BTV) and Bangladesh Betar, according to a handout. In addition, all private television channels and radio stations have been requested to telecast and broadcast the budget speech simultaneously at that time by taking the feed from BTV, to ensure wider coverage of the national budget.
Bangladesh Army today binned an Indian media outlet report claiming that it decided to declare as a “military zone” the northeastern Bandarban hill district and neighbouring Cox’s Bazar, both bordering the troubled Rakhine state of Myanmar. “The article titled ‘Bangladesh to declare Cox’s Bazar to Bandarban area as a ‘military operations zone’ by Northeast News is a clear example of deliberate disinformation propagated by segments of the Indian media seeking to destabilize Bangladesh’s internal cohesion and undermine its armed forces,” an ISPR statement said. The Inter Services Public Relation Directorate (ISPR) said the article was a clear example of “deliberate…
Visiting Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao today said his country was ready to extend cooperation with Bangladesh in trade and commerce, with a particular eye on agriculture, jute, marine fisheries and research. The Chinese minister, who led a large delegation of Chinese businesspeople and industrialists at the China-Bangladesh Conference on Investment and Trade in Dhaka today, made the comments when he called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka. “The Chinese companies that have come with me are excited. You expressed the direction of Bangladesh’s future development. The Chinese companies told me that…
Calling upon Chinese companies to invest in Bangladesh, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said Chinese robust investment can be a game changer for Bangladesh economy. “I urge Chinese investors to make Bangladesh their home and their production hub…the young people are ready to accept that challenge,” he said. The chief adviser made the call while addressing the China-Bangladesh Conference on Investment and Trade in the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) office, Agargaon, here. The Bangladesh and Chinese governments jointly organised the conference. Recalling the longstanding Dhaka-Beijing relations, he said a couple of months ago, during his visit to Beijing,…
Several people suffered burns and other injuries Sunday in the US state of Colorado in what the FBI called a “targeted terror attack” against demonstrators seeking the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Police in the city of Boulder said a man was taken into custody. They were more cautious in presuming a possible motive for the attack, which multiple sources said was committed against members of the Jewish community during a peaceful gathering. Local media cited eyewitnesses describing a man throwing something resembling a homemade Molotov cocktail at the group. In one video apparently of the attack, a…
Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus today stressed the need for reviving the lost glory of jute and increasing its use to strengthen the country’s economy. “When you talk about jute, it is an emotional issue for Bangladesh. This country is a unique country, which produces enormous natural fibers over many years,” he said. The chief adviser made the remarks while addressing the China-Bangladesh Conference on Investment and Trade in the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) office, Agargaon, here. Jute remains a fiber just for making sacks – the natural fiber in the world which is failed to fulfill expectation…
