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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.
📊 Economy & Finance
GPH Ispat will raise Tk 967.77 crore through a rights issue of 96.77 crore shares, with proceeds earmarked for loan repayment as the company recovers from a loss-making year.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh Bank has introduced a KPI framework for bank MDs and CEOs, with assessment based on solvency, asset quality, governance, profitability and customer conduct.
🌏 Diplomacy & Trade Missions
UNCTAD report shows LDCs including Bangladesh are falling behind in global trade in services, with digitally deliverable services representing only 16% of LDC services exports.
📊 Economy & Finance
Bangladesh faces the risk of ageing before it grows rich, with youth population declining, labour productivity at $8.7/hour, and 84% informal employment, argues M M Mahbub Hasan.
📊 Economy & Finance
US core inflation posted its largest gain in four months in August, with petrol prices jumping 3.9% and diesel surging 9.6%, reinforcing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike next week.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
BARVIDA has urged the Bangladesh government to withdraw the ban on reconditioned and used EV imports, proposing a regulated framework to make EVs affordable for middle-class consumers.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Bangladesh's Farmer Card programme launches September 17 with 1,10,364 farmers receiving incentives, targeting eventual enrollment of over 2 crore farmers across the country.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue is seeking Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's approval to revert to monthly VAT returns and payments after the new quarterly system triggered a 21% drop in collection.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Researchers say expanding seaweed cultivation in Patuakhali's Kuakata coast could create employment, generate value-added products and contribute to climate change mitigation.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
Battery-run rickshaws face intense public backlash in Bangladesh, but columnist Syed Muhammed Showaib argues poor regulation, not the vehicles themselves, is the real problem.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking A technical fault at the Adani Jharkhand plant has cut Bangladesh's imported power supply by more than half, exacerbating the country's ongoing power crisis driven by gas and coal shortages.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
State Minister Sultan Salauddin Tuku has announced the expansion of eco-friendly technologies in government fish farms, starting with a 20-kW solar system at a Tangail seed production farm.