Regular liquidity feeding to banks stops, call money market vibrant
Bangladesh Bank finally discards a major regular liquidity-feeding instrument for primary dealer (PD) banks, eight months after the decision made to tidy the money market under a reform recipe. As part of the central bank's decision to bring vibrancy in the interbank spot market through lessening commercial banks' dependence on...
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Qatar govt to send rented air ambulance from Germany
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may fly to London for advanced treatment tomorrow, with the delay caused by a hitch in the Qatar government's initiative to send an air ambulance for her. She was supposed to take a special air ambulance of Qatar's royal fleet, but because of a technical glitch,...
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Constant product lab tests a must-do to accelerate trade
A government instruction makes it a must-do for key scientific agencies to keep their laboratory-testing services open round the clock, weekends and public holidays no exception, to cut the cost of doing business and accelerate trade facilitation.Officials say the Ministry of Science and Technology under the reformist interim government has...
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Primary teachers suspend school shutdown to hold annual exams
Assistant teachers of government primary schools suspended their shutdown programme and said they will open the schools for annual examinations from tomorrow (Sunday).The Primary Teachers' Demand Implementation Council and the Bangladesh Primary Assistant Teachers' Association Unity Council made the announcement on Thursday night.Considering ethical and humanitarian grounds and the wellbeing...
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Tight-fisted govt spending narrows budget deficit, curtails works
A slowdown in public works following the regime-changing political upheavals narrow Bangladesh's budget deficit as a blessing in disguise as the interim government couldn't utilise much of the budgetary outlay, official statistics show.The budget deficit contracted to 3.30 per cent of the GDP in the last fiscal year (FY 2024-25)...
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Announcement (2025-12-06)
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