The government is struggling to make Gwadar port fully operational due to a lack of transportation infrastructure and higher costs, as no entity is willing to shift imports and exports there.

Social safety net programmes, such as Open Market Sales (OMS) and Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), provided less help to the ...

The survey flagged that FMGs in China (during COVID lockdowns) and Ukraine (as the conflict with Russia escalated) had to ...

Religious Affairs Adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain on Friday described zakat, the almsgiving in Islam, as an effective system in ...

"Zakat is an important economic system based on Islamic Sharia. Through this, a balanced distribution of wealth between the ...

Dhaka`s Paltan thana area has the least number of residents living under the poverty line, only 1 percent, according ...

As many as 19.2% of the population in Bangladesh lives below the poverty line, with the poverty rate in urban areas standing ...

Considering the list with least number of poor residents in the Dhaka district, the second spot is Uttara Paschim with 1.1% living below poverty line, followed by Bimanbandar (1.4%), Dhanmondi (1.5%), ...

Bangladesh's poverty map has changed. Barishal now has the highest percentage of poor people among all divisions, replacing ...

Dhaka's Paltan has the least number of residents living under the poverty line at 1%, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has found. The survey, titled "Poverty Map of Bangladesh", also revealed ...

The French traveller Bernier was profoundly amazed by the diversity and abundance he witnessed in East Bengal, now Bangladesh. Unfortunately, much of these traditions and wealth have become relics of ...