Bari said, "Currently, the nursery has about 30,000 growing saplings of 45 species of various timber, fruit, flower and ...

The country’s service sector-based units grew more than manufacturing units over the past one decade that was also marked by ...

This is even more pronounced in the capital, Dhaka, a metropolitan area of around 20 million ... only to be threatened with being dragged back into poverty by climate disasters. "We need to change the ...

Spring Festival marks the first since its inclusion in UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of ...

Dhaka's Paltan has the least number of residents living under the poverty line at 1%, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has found. The survey, titled "Poverty Map of Bangladesh", also revealed ...

The data was presented in a report prepared by the Poverty and Livelihood Statistics Cell of BBS at an event held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Dhaka on Thursday. The ...

while Chittagong division has the lowest poverty rate at 15.2%. The capital, Dhaka, meanwhile witnessed its poverty rate increase by 1.8 percentage points to 19.6%. However, it is Dasar upazila in ...

At the upazila level, Dasar in Madaripur had the highest poverty rate of 63.2 percent while Dhaka's Paltan recorded the lowest with 1 percent. Outside the capital, Double Mooring Thana in ...

The greatest proponent of this notion is Prof Shahid uz Zaman of the Dhaka University ... China has enjoyed success at alle- viating poverty by lifting nearly 800 million people across the ...

DHAKA, Jan 30, 2025 (BSS) - Dhaka's Paltan thana area has the least number of residents living under the poverty line, only 1 percent, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). A BBS ...

A newly released report by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Poverty Map of Bangladesh 2022, has highlighted severe economic disparities across the country. The findings reveal that Paltan in ...