On 01 June, 2017, Bangladesh’s Finance Minister AMA Muhith has placed a Taka 4 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2017-18 in the parliament, relying mostly on VAT collections to cover a 35% growth in revenue earnings.

On 17/03/2017, a suicide bomber reportedly blew himself up in a suicide bombing near a temporary barrack of police’s elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Ashkona area of Dhaka. The attack took place a day after police conducted a raid in Chittagong's Sitakunda area where two persons, who were said to be members of home grown militant organization by the police, blew themselves up to evade arrest. As usual,…

he Hasina government has once again announced its outrageous plan to raise natural gas prices for the second time in under two years; and this time by an average 22.7 percent in two phases starting next month (March, 2017)

The President of Bangladesh instituted a six-member search committee for the reconstitution of the election commission as the incumbent one is serving out its tenure on 08 February 2017.