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GDP growth slows sharply in Q4, FY25 as industrial, services sectors falter

Bangladesh's economic growth slowed sharply in the final quarter of the last fiscal year (FY2024-25), as a steep downturn in industrial-and service-sector activities dragged overall performance, according to official figures released on Thursday.Data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) show that GDP growth at constant prices slipped to 3.35...

CPD calls for abandoning Upper House plan

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has urged the National Consensus Commission (NCC) to abandon its proposal to introduce an Upper House in the 13th National Parliament, warning that it would complicate Bangladesh's existing Westminster-style system without ensuring meaningful accountability.At a national dialogue titled "Proposed Upper House in the National...

Airlines hesitant to fly amid low commercial viability

No airline, except Biman Bangladesh Airlines, has so far responded to the call to operate international flights from Cox's Bazar Airport, even though the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is fully prepared to launch such flights from the beach town by the end of October.The lack of interest stems...

BB buys over $2.0b from banks in 3 months

The central bank purchased over US$2.0 billion from banks in nearly last three months, aiming to encourage both exporters and remitters through keeping the dollar-taka rate stable.As part of the ongoing intervention, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) bought $107 million more through auction from 10 commercial banks in the interbank spot...

500-bhori gold ornaments stolen from city shop: Owner claims

Around 500 bhoris (over 5.8 kg) of gold ornaments were reportedly stolen from a jewellery shop inside Fortune Shopping Mall in the capital's Mouchak area early Thursday.Police and local sources said the theft occurred at Shompa Jewellers around 3:00am. CCTV footage shows two burglars, disguised in burqas, cutting the shutter...

4 more deaths reported from dengue, 871 hospitalised

Four more deaths were reported from dengue while 781new patients were hospitalised across the country during the last 24 hours until Thursday morning,The new deaths were reported in Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The DGHS data...

50m children to get typhoid vaccine from October 12

Chief Adviser's Special Assistant on the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Prof Dr Md Sayedur Rahman said on Thursday 50 million (five crore) children aged 9 months to 15 years will receive typhoid vaccines during the nationwide campaign, scheduled to begin on October 12, reports BSS.The programme will run...

BD's gross forex reserve crosses $27b mark anew

The country's gross foreign exchange (forex) reserve in IMF's (International Monetary Fund) arithmetic crossed $27 billion-mark on Thursday.It was the highest figure since Bangladesh stepped into sixth editions of Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, generally known as BPM6, as part of its $5.50 billion lending package for...

Correction_2025-10-10

The trio who won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday was erroneously mentioned as all Americans in the headline of the story carried on Page 8 in Wednesday's issue of The Financial Express.Actually one of them is a Briton, another a Frenchman and the other an American.The mistake is...