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TCB to begin mobile truck sales of essentials from Sunday

TDS Desk: The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will begin selling essential commodities in the capital and some other places from Sunday. This programme will continue alongside its regular sales

Banks: How BB heals an abused sector after regime change

TDS Desk: The country’s banking sector was grappling with severe dollar shortage, rapid erosion of foreign exchange reserves, and liquidity crisis in dozens of banks that were unable to repay

Disruptions in rice procurement due to 0.5% source tax

Staff Correspondent: Rice procurement in Bangladesh is facing significant disruptions following the recent imposition of a 0.5% source tax on domestic rice procurement. According to an official document presented at

Garment exports drop 12% in Q4

TDS Desk: Bangladesh’s garment exports fell 11.92 percent from the previous quarter to $9.11 billion in the April–June period of the current fiscal year, according to the latest quarterly data

Real income keeps falling for 3.5 years

TDS Desk: For three and a half years, wages in Bangladesh have consistently lagged behind the rising cost of living – eroding the real income of workers month after month.

BSCIC Industrial Park in Sirajganj looking for investors

Staff Correspondent: After more than a decade of delays, extensions and revisions, BSCIC Industrial Park in Sirajganj, situated some 120 kilometres northwest of capital Dhaka, is at last ready to