The government of Bangladesh is set to form a specialised firm to fund and nurture startups and ICT entrepreneurs under the Innovation Design and Entrepreneur Academy of the ICT division with the view to encouraging innovative ventures. All the preparatory work and formalities have been completed a few months back, …

A minister of the incumbent government has observed that the country is now hunger-free and the rate of poverty here will come down to 10 percent before the next parliamentary election. He said that the poverty rate has reduced to merely 20 percent from 41 percent during the last 10-year …

Bangladesh is among only three countries beside India and Cambodia tasting the fastest rate of reduction in poverty indicators. The revelation has been made by a UN body noting that the South Asian country got about 19.3 million people out of poverty between 2004 and 2014, which is the the …