New monetary policy likely in 3rd week of July

Bangladesh Bank is set to unveil the monetary policy for the first half of FY25 in the third week of July, to bring down inflation which has persistently remained high. Inflation in Bangladesh has been hovering at over 9% since March last year and the central bank's existing tight monetary policy

Onion, sugar import from India likely before Ramadan: Ahsanul

State Minister for Commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu on Sunday said that the government would be able to supply onion and sugar, imported from India, to the market before the holy month of Ramadan. "Already a proposal for importing 50,000 metric tons of onion and one lakh metric tons of sugar was