Implementation of 15 of the 29 Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica)-funded projects are lagging far behind their targets due to issues including delay in land acquisition, procurement of equipment and selection of consultants, according to a Jica report. Jica's Bangladesh office placed the progress report at a high-level portfolio review meeting, attended by officials
The government shelved a proposal for buying two lakh Electronic Voting Machines, forcing the Election Commission to change its plan for using the machines in up to 150 constituencies in the next general polls.
The spectre of unprecedented onion price escalation following India's export ban in 2019 unleashed a chaos like never before unsettling not only all household kitchens in the country, but the commodity market as a whole.