{"id":44509,"date":"2025-08-04T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:07:11","slug":"do-you-see-nothing-good-in-the-economy-finance-adviser-to-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44509\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you see nothing good in the economy?: Finance adviser to critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      \u201cDo you see nothing good in the economy? It takes insight to notice the progress that has been made,\u201d he said to the critics    <\/p>\n<p>\n                    TBS Report\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n      04 August, 2025, 12:05 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Last modified: 04 August, 2025, 04:39 pm    <\/p>\n<p>\n      Dr Salehuddin Ahmed. Sketch: TBS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"adf-overlay ratio ratio__16x9 lazyload\" data-aspectratio=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/saleh_uddin.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Salehuddin Ahmed. Sketch: TBS\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n          Dr Salehuddin Ahmed. Sketch: TBS        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Amid continued criticism regarding the interim government&#8217;s economic measures, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has called on critics to also highlight the positive aspects of the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He said this at a seminar at the National Board of Revenue (NBR) headquarters in Agargaon today (4 August).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8220;Do you see nothing good in the economy? It takes insight to notice the progress that has been made,&#8221; he said to the critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #2b4949; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; font-size: 18px;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMIivlQsw2ZKrAw?ceid=US:en&amp;oc=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tbsnews.net\/sites\/all\/themes\/sloth\/images\/google_news.svg\" alt=\"The Business Standard Google News\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; height: 30px;\"\/><br \/>\n            Keep updated, follow The Business Standard&#8217;s Google news channel<br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8220;Yes, we [interim government] make mistakes. But when the good work is encouraged, it feels good. Still, you have the freedom to say what you want,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The seminar was organised to brief journalists on the changes made in income tax, VAT and customs policies in the budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">NBR Chairman Abdur Rahman Khan presided over the seminar. Economic Reporters Forum President Doulot Akter Mala also spoke, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDo you see nothing good in the economy? It takes insight to notice the progress that has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-44509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}