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Local toiletry, hygiene items replacing imports steadily

Why go for imported expensive products when local buys of veritably same-quality substitutes can save one over 35-percent expenses is a moot question prompted now by domestic industrial expansion. A prime example being cited is homegrown toiletry and beauty productsthat are increasingly substituting expensive imports that drain on Bangladesh's limited...

Jubilant crowds welcome Khaleda back home

After four months of advanced medical treatment in London, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia returned to Dhaka on Tuesday.Her arrival was met with an outpouring of support as thousands of BNP men lined the roads from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to her Gulshan residence...

Ordinance scraps controversial sections of draconian CSA

Nine draconian sections of the controversial Cyber Security Act (CSA) used for clampdown on free speeches and dissident voices during the previous regime are now gone.The council of advisers of the post-uprising government Tuesday approved 'The Cyber Security Ordinance 2025 amending the widely criticised CSA 2023."Some 95 per cent of...

Efforts underway to keep spice prices under control

The government has asked all deputy commissioners (DCs) and its agencies to enhance monitoring to prevent the smuggling of spices and keep the price of the essential items under control during and ahead of the upcoming Muslim festival, Eid-ul-Azha.The National Security Intelligence (NSI) has sent a set of suggestions to...

BD tells Arakan Army to include Rohingya in new administration

The government has conveyed to the Arakan Army that the Rohingya must be included in different positions in the new Arakan Administration in the Rakhine State to prove that they are not in favour of ethnic cleansing."We have conveyed this message to them through the UN," said Mr Khalilur Rahman,...

BD-IMF meet ends inconclusively for second day

The parley between the officials of the government of Bangladesh and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ended inconclusive for the second consecutive day on Tuesday as the two sides failed to reach consensus over the pending issues.Officials familiar with the development told The Financial Express that the meeting would continue...