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Local goods behind 75.6pc of FY26 Q1 inflation

Bangladesh's inflation profile tilted further towards domestic sources, with home-grown supply constraints and cost pressures increasingly eclipsing imported shocks, according to the Bangladesh Bank analysis on inflation for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2025-26.Domestically produced goods accounted for 75.6 per cent of the headline inflation in this quarter,...

BD pursues two-dozen plans to secure duty-free mkt access

Bangladesh pursues over two-dozen plans to secure duty-free market access to major trade-partner countries for effective graduation from least-developed country (LDC) status, sources say.The ministry of commerce (MoC) has sketched out the sweeping, time-bound action plan under Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework.This comprehensive framework is designed to execute a Smooth...

Experts for securing interests of small stakeholders

Bankers and financial-sector experts make a strong plea that interests of the small shareholders should be protected in the merger of five Islamic banks as the regulatory declaration nullifying their net asset value for past plunders beggared them. The central bank had failed to regulate all the commercial banks properly...

Referendum demand a plot to foil election: Mirza Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has termed the demand for a referendum by Jamaat-e-Islami and other like-minded parties before the national election as a "conspiracy to foil the polls."Speaking at a rally in front of BNP's central office at Naya Paltan, Dhaka, on Friday, Fakhrul made the remark...

Jamaat Ameer urges youth to prepare to lead country with honesty

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman called upon on Friday the country's young generation to prepare themselves to lead the country with honesty and integrity. He said that the nation's progress depends on honest and visionary student leaders with slogan "New Leadership, New Bangladesh". "The new leadership emerging from university...

No scope for 'note of dissent' in July Charter: Nahid Islam

National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has said that the order related to the July National Charter must be given by Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus. He also said that there would be no "note of dissent" in the July National Charter.He made these remarks while speaking at...