Though four of its five stipulated years have already elapsed, a Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) project on developing 2,210 kilometres of rural roads has witnessed the completion of only a third of its core task.
The proposed comprehensive economic Partnership agreement (CEPA) with India should be partially reciprocal, not fully, as India has a big economy and a huge basket of diversified products for export, said economists and businesses.
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Registration of new firms in Bangladesh declined 9 per cent year-on-year to 13,480 in the just-concluded fiscal year of 2021-22 owing largely to the persisting economic uncertainty at home and abroad, official figures showed.