Finance

A USD 4.1 Billion Hole: Who Will Fill the Gap Left by Yunus?

What the Yunus administration has left behind in Bangladesh’s power sector can scarcely be described as anything less than a serious failure. According to figures...

Nobel Peace Laureate Yunus Leaves Office Amid Questions Over 18-Month Tenure

Bringing an eventful 18 months in Bangladeshi politics to a close, the interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus has...

226 Thousand Crore in Loans, Zero Development: Yunus’s Legacy of Crippling Bangladesh

When Sheikh Hasina left the country, Bangladesh’s total public debt stood at 19.23 lakh crore taka. In just eighteen...

In a country where a microcredit businessman is the Chief Adviser, people will inevitably die under the burden of debt

Before jumping in front of the train, Mir Ruhul Amin may have paused for a moment to think: where...

Politics rocked by allegations of lobbying and extortion even before coming to power, rumors of a multi-crore racket using Tarique Rahman’s name

Even before coming to power, old-style politics of corruption, lobbying, and abuse of influence is allegedly resurfacing. With these...

Why do people want to know the reason for opposing India—the very country from which Bangladesh’s rice, lentils, and electricity come, sustaining its people’s...

In recent times, an unsettling reality has begun to surface in Bangladeshi politics: a calculated attempt to package anti-India...

Attempt to transfer Grameen Telecom’s assets worth 2.45 billion $ abroad — Dr. Yunus’s secret meeting

Recent diplomatic developments surrounding Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government, have raised new concerns about the...

Export sector collapsing under interim leader Yunus: Export earnings declining for four consecutive months; exports fell by five and a half percent in November

The alarming statistic of Bangladesh’s export earnings declining for the fourth consecutive month indicates a deep crisis for the...