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BB asks banks to get ready ahead of January roll-out

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) plans to implement risk-based supervision (RBS) from January 2026 and has asked the country's commercial banks to take necessary measures in this regard. As part of the shift from the decades-old compliance-based inspections, the central bankers concerned held a meeting with the bank executives.At the meeting...

Bhutan's PM arrives tomorrow

Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (Saturday) on a three-day official visit that is expected to deepen bilateral cooperation and lay the groundwork for new economic and regional partnerships between the two Himalayan neighbours.Tobgay will meet Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, on the first day...

Slow ADP spending drags development progress

Development activities remain in disarray as government ministries and agencies struggle to recover from last year's disruptions caused by the July uprising, officials said on Thursday.The sluggish execution of development projects has persisted into the first four months of the current fiscal year, raising concerns about the wider impact on...

HC orders govt not to proceed

The High Court on Thursday directed the government not to proceed with any further activities related to the container-handling contract for the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at Chattogram seaport until the writ petition challenging the initiative is resolved.The bench of Justice Fatema Najib and Justice Fatema Anwar issued the...

Man killed in Ctg road accident

CHATTOGRAM, Nov 20: A man was killed and five others were injured on Thursday afternoon when a vehicle skidded off an expressway and fell onto a busy road in Chattogram's Nimtala area. The incident occurred around 4:30 pm and caused severe traffic congestion around one of the city's key transport...

Ordinance approved for independent Supreme Court secretariat

A much-sought-after ordinance for establishing separate secretariat for the Supreme Court is endorsed now, in a move hailed by legal experts and reform advocates as a decisive step toward securing full judicial independence.The Supreme Court Secretariat Ordinance 2025 received its final approval Thursday at a meeting of the Council of...

Dhaka calls for expediting collective cybersecurity action

Bangladesh has urged member-states of the Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) to accelerate collective action on cyberthreats, misinformation and regional security, warning that individual national measures are no longer sufficient to counter rapidly evolving digital risks.Addressing the seventh meeting of National Security Advisers of the CSC in New Delhi on Thursday,...

Kailashtila field to add 5.0 mmcfd more gas to national grid

The country's national gas grid is set to receive an additional 5.0 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of natural gas from Kailashtila gas field starting next week. This increase in gas supply follows a successful workover of the Kailashtila-1 well by the state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company...

Private university student found dead in city

Police recovered the body of a student of private university in the city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mushfiq Uz Zaman, a student of the Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at East West University.According to the police, university officials spotted the body behind the campus around 3:30pm...

July-Oct tax revenue up 16pc

The government's tax revenue collection grew by nearly 16 per cent in the first four months of the current fiscal year, mainly riding on hefty growth in VAT collection.However, tax revenue collection lagged behind its target by Tk 172.19 billion in this period.Until October, the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...