Bangladesh's domestic, foreign loan interest payments surpass 1 tln taka for 1st time

DHAKA, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Bangladeshi government's interest payments against loans from both domestic and foreign sources surged 24.5 percent in the fiscal year 2023-24 (July 2023-June 2024), exceeding a record 1-trillion-taka mark for the first time in history.

According to the finance ministry's fiscal report released recently, over 114,000 crore taka was spent on interest payments in the 2024 fiscal, re