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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
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh Bank Governor Mostaqur Rahman says 25% of Tk 60,000 crore stimulus package will be disbursed in September 2026, with full disbursement by December, targeting agriculture, SMEs and rural borrowers.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh receives $35.59 billion in remittances in FY2025-26, up $5.26 billion from $30.33 billion in FY25, as Saudi Arabia rises to $5.85b and UK to $5.07b, while US remittances fall 35.9% to $3.03b.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Finance Minister Amir Khasru places bill in parliament to repeal controversial Section 18(A) that allowed former directors of merged Sammilito Islami Bank to reacquire shares, following widespread criticism.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking BB expands scope of foreign currency deposit collateral from OBU accounts, allowing balances to be used for broader range of local currency loans including consumer finance for resident persons and non-resident Bangladeshis.
💼 Investment & FDI
⚡ Breaking UK Export Finance highlights £1-2 billion country capacity for Bangladeshi buyers, covering transport, agriculture, healthcare, airports, manufacturing, renewable energy and infrastructure sectors during Dhaka visit.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Science and Technology Minister Fakir Mahbub Anam says safety valve problems at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant first unit are delaying power supply to national grid, with Russian expert team being called in to assess.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
⚡ Breaking Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir discloses total bilateral trade at nearly $13 billion with Bangladesh exports at $1.89 billion, identifying leather, jute, shipbuilding, light engineering and semiconductors as growth sectors.
🤝 Trade & Commerce
⚡ Breaking Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir tells parliament bilateral trade at $12.75 billion with $1.89 billion exports, as both countries have created restrictions over past two years, including yarn import and land port limitations.
👕 RMG & Textile
⚡ Breaking Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir tells parliament 282 BGMEA and 120 BKMEA member factories closed between July 2023 and June 2026 due to global conflicts, domestic instability, rising energy costs and buyer reluctance.
⚖️ Policy & Regulation
⚡ Breaking Bangladesh Bank allows Hi-Tech Park industrial enterprises to make royalty, technical know-how and technical assistance fee payments from taka accounts without prior BB or BHTPA approval.
📊 Economy & Finance
⚡ Breaking Analysis shows 38.42% of rescheduled loans became non-performing again by 2024, as BB expanded concessions five times in less than a year, raising moral hazard concerns about repeated blanket rescheduling.
👞 Leather & Footwear
⚡ Breaking FLAXA President Syed Nasim Manzur says Bangladesh can more than double leather and footwear exports from $1.76b to $5b by 2030 with policy reforms, non-leather expansion and shift from crust to finished leather, while reducing 23 certificates to 4 like Vietnam.