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🤝 Trade & Commerce
Chattogram Customs House seized 467 consignments and filed 270 cases over suspected false declarations in Q1 FY27, recovering Tk 58.2 crore as enforcement jumped 83.6 percent year on year.
👕 RMG & Textile
The IndustriALL Bangladesh Council has demanded a $260 minimum monthly wage for garment workers, citing soaring living costs, fuel-driven transport fare hikes and market volatility after the government pay award.
💡 Tech & Innovation
Janata Bank and Bengal Commercial Bank websites remained offline amid cyberattack fears, after Agrani, IFIC, Standard Islami and SBAC Bank sites were also taken down during the week and later restored.
📊 Economy & Finance
BRAC Bank is set to issue a Tk 1,000 crore green bond, the first by a Bangladeshi bank, with an S&P second-party opinion and an ICMA-aligned framework, to fund renewable energy, green buildings and industrial efficiency.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Farmers across five northern districts are producing and trading organic fertiliser to restore declining soil fertility and offset chemical fertiliser shortages, with around 16,000 commercially involved.
📊 Economy & Finance
Dhaka stocks opened lower after the week-long Puja holiday, with the DSEX falling 0.10 percent to 5,445 as lacklustre earnings, Middle East tension and the latest fuel price hike weighed on sentiment.
💡 Tech & Innovation
Bangladesh Bank has restored its website after a three-day precautionary shutdown over PHP vulnerabilities, with internet and mobile banking running normally throughout, the central bank spokesperson said.
🌏 Diplomacy & Trade Missions
Bangladesh has urged developed nations to honour long-overdue climate finance commitments, saying predictable and adequate funding is essential for climate-vulnerable countries to tackle global warming.
📊 Economy & Finance
Mutual Trust Bank holds its non-performing loan ratio slightly above 6 percent against a banking-sector average above 32 percent, MD Syed Mahbubur Rahman says ahead of the bank's 27th anniversary.
📊 Economy & Finance
Bangladesh's capital market recovery depends on stronger corporate earnings, fresh fund inflows and rebuilt investor confidence, analysts say, with the DSEX at 5,451 and turnover down 17.9 percent after the Puja holiday.
📊 Economy & Finance
NCC Bank PLC has distributed free seeds, fertiliser and pesticides among 3,000 marginal farmers across three areas of Bogura to boost production and strengthen food security.
📊 Economy & Finance
Indonesia is cutting natural gas exports to Singapore by 31 million standard cubic feet per day, about eight percent of last year's supply, to prioritise domestic power amid a diplomatic spat over wildfire haze.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
The Trump administration lifted tariffs on some Canadian imports including plywood and paper two weeks before the midterms, after Senator Susan Collins lobbied for exemptions crucial to Maine's farmers.