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Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said the government will enhance the capacity of the Statistics and Informatics Division and the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), while also increasing the independence and professionalism of data publication. These measures, he said, are aimed at strengthening public trust in government data. The minister also instructed officials to take initiatives to update the organizational structure and recruitment rules of the BBS...

The government has not printed and released new money into the market despite deep economic crisis, Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said, adding that the Ways and Means Advances stood at Tk 17,590 crore on the day the government took office and fell to Tk 11,103 crore by April 22....