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⚖️ Policy & Regulation
Bangladesh has introduced automated Account Verification System for savings certificates and bonds, with 9 of 11 national savings schemes now processed automatically for 39 lakh+ customers.
💡 Tech & Innovation
⚡ Breaking Snowtex Group reports 25% productivity gain from AI-driven IoT devices on 10,000 sewing machines, with Sparrow Group, Ha-Meem, DBL Group, Urmi Group and Fakir Fashions planning similar adoption across Bangladesh RMG sector.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
⚡ Breaking NBR issues 12 urgent instructions to customs houses ending overlapping import consignment crosscheck, coordinating CIID and CIC examinations, and strengthening risk-based examination to reduce port clearance time.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Dollar exchange rate rises to Tk 123.50 from Tk 122 in 10 days, giving importers who hedged future payments up to Tk 1 per dollar advantage, as Bangladesh Bank stays out of spot market.
🌏 Diplomacy & Trade Missions
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh and China prepare to launch new two-tier diplomacy and defence dialogue following PM Tarique Rahman's China visit, with CEIZ industrial zone to attract $500M Chinese investment creating 100,000 jobs.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh Bank posts Tk 25,977 crore net profit in FY26, up Tk 3,357 crore YoY, driven by higher lending to liquidity-strapped banks and returns on reserve fund investments abroad.
🚢 Logistics & Shipping
⚡ Breaking Civil Aviation Minister Rashiduzzaman Millat says HSIA third terminal was merely inaugurated as a building, with machinery not integrated, requiring Tk 902 crore more to clear ADC dues and complete works to begin full operations.
🚢 Logistics & Shipping
⚡ Breaking APM Terminals, subsidiary of AP Moller-Maersk, begins construction of $550 million Laldia Container Terminal at Chattogram's Patenga, with 1 million TEUs annual capacity to be operational by 2030 under 30-year DBFOT model.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Bangladesh Bank revises Tk 100 billion agricultural refinance scheme with farmer-level interest rate capped at 7% and participating bank rate of 3%, with 18-month repayment window and penalty for misuse.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking ERD data shows Bangladesh received $180.18 million in foreign loans in July 2026 but repaid $453.23 million - 2.5 times disbursements - as mega project grace periods expire, with commitments down 83% YoY.
📊 Economy & Finance
Walton Hi-Tech Industries PLC declares 190% dividend (180% cash + 10% stock) for FY26 with EPS rising to Tk 33.75, as finance costs fall from 6.33% to 2.45% of sales, driving 8.5% profit growth.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Currency outside Bangladesh banking system rises to Tk 3.36 trillion in June 2026, up 13.5% YoY, as depositor confidence remains fragile with additional Tk 400 billion held outside formal banking channel.
💼 Investment & FDI
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh government seeks $4.5 billion foreign financing for Tk 710 billion Dhaka-Chattogram Expressway project, with ADB expressing interest and ERD preparing hybrid co-financing proposal including AIIB.