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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.
🌾 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
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.
⚖️ 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.
🌾 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.