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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.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
A Bagerhat entrepreneur has demonstrated that fallow saline land in coastal Bangladesh can be productively used for off-season watermelon cultivation, offering climate-resilient livelihood alternatives.
📊 Economy & Finance
BAJUS has cut 22-carat gold price by Tk 2,158 per bhori to Tk 2,31,880, the latest in 114 price adjustments this year reflecting volatile global gold market conditions.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
Soybean oil supplies remain tight in Dhaka despite price increases, with small grocers unable to obtain stock. Flour prices also rose, pushing bakery item prices up.
🚢 Logistics & Shipping
Bangladesh Bank has introduced RTGS payment facility for Chittagong Port service charges from September 15, waiving the minimum transaction threshold to streamline port payment workflows.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Jackfruit prices in Gazipur have surged up to Tk 1,000 per fruit at season end, from Tk 10 during peak season, exposing the absence of processing infrastructure for Bangladesh's national fruit.
📊 Economy & Finance
Pubali Bank is set to double its authorised capital to Tk 40 billion, creating room to raise paid-up capital to meet Bangladesh Bank's revised dividend policy requiring Tk 20 billion minimum.
💼 Investment & FDI
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh has unveiled a $1.85 billion green transition investment plan, becoming the first Asian country to embed a Just Transition chapter in its NDC 3.0 ahead of COP31.
🚢 Logistics & Shipping
PT Pertamina has won the operation and management contract for Bangladesh's first single-point mooring (SPM), ending a two-year delay that cost BPC extra funds on lighter vessel operations.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh's economic malaise reflects a multidimensional plunder economy where extortion, bank looting, political patronage and capital flight reinforce each other, argues economist Abdullah A Dewan.
💡 Tech & Innovation
Robi, Grameenphone and Banglalink have launched AI subscription services, opening a new revenue stream for Bangladesh's telecom operators beyond traditional voice and data.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
Bangladesh Bank has ordered Commerce Bank to take action against 13 officials for irregular withdrawal of Tk 4 crore from the bank's funds in the name of deposit mobilisation incentives.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Industry leaders at a Daily Star discussion blamed political patronage, regulatory forbearance and wilful defaulter impunity for Bangladesh's record Tk 6 lakh crore NPLs.