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Fuel price hike not now, says Salehuddin

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed said Tuesday that the government is observing the Iran-Israel conflict and would not increase fuel-oil prices right now. "We are not going there [raising oil prices]. We will wait further," he told newsmen after a meeting of the Advisers' Council Committee on Government Purchase at...

Money-whitening facility unlikely in next fiscal

The much-debated black-money-whitening facility is unlikely in the upcoming fiscal year as the provision incorporated into the Finance Ordinance may finally be dropped amid outcry.The finance ordinance, promulgated on June 2, 2025 to ratify the interim government's maiden budget, has retained the provision allowing black-money whitening through real-estate investment, purchase...

Preferential buyer's credit softening in focus

A Bangladesh-China meeting takes place tomorrow (Thursday) for resolving a stalemate over the terms binding preferential buyer's credit (PBC) as Dhaka seeks the newly offered Yuan-based loans for development funding on softer conditions, officials said.Beijing has offered Yuan (RMB)-denominated loan instead of USD-based ones to Dhaka for bankrolling development works...

People arrive with their luggage before the departure

People arrive with their luggage before the departure of a bus slated to evacuate foreign passport holders, mainly European and Polish, out of Israel, at a bus stop in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. — AFP

BD begins evacuating citizens from Tehran

Evacuating Bangladeshi citizens from Tehran to safer places in Iran gets underway as the Iranian capital has been under a blitzkrieg of Israeli airstrikes since Friday, officials in Dhaka said Tuesday.Briefing the media on the evacuation move, Acting Foreign Secretary Md Ruhul Alam Siddique on the day said the current...

Tk 5.5m looted from Nagad official in Jashore

JASHORE, June 17 (UNB): Muggers snatched away Tk 5.5 million (55 lakh) from an official of mobile financial service provider Nagad at Kuada Jamtala intersection on the Jashore-Monirampur road in Jashore district on Tuesday.The muggers, riding on a motorcycle, intercepted a private car carrying Rabiul Islam, manager of Nagad's Jashore...

Court orders attaching 200 acres of S Alam land

A court in Dhaka on Tuesday ordered attachment of 200 acres of land owned by S Alam Group owner Mohammad Saiful Alam and people related to him over graft allegations, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order, allowing a plea of the Anti-Corruption Commission...