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Filling stations run dry following fuel price drop

TDS Desk: Filling stations across the country have run dry on Sunday following a decrease in fuel prices by Tk6 per unit. Many customers have been moving from one station

BB announces special loan repayment facility for flood victims

TDS Desk: Bangladesh Bank (BB) has announced a special facility for flood-affected farmers and CMSME (Cottage, Micro, Small and medium enterprises) entrepreneurs to repay the loan installments. In this case,

Remittances surge to $2.22b in August

TDS Desk: Since the Sheikh Hasina government fell on 5 August, the country has seen a significant increase in remittance inflows. According to Bangladesh Bank data, Bangladesh’s remittance receipts in

Businesses welcome fuel oil price cut

TDS Desk: Business leaders and economists have welcomed the recent cut in fuel oil prices, viewing it as a positive step to help entrepreneurs cut operational costs. They have also

How Islami Bank was taken over ‘at gunpoint’

TDS Desk: Islami Bank, the largest private bank by deposits in 2017, was a lucrative target for Sheikh Hasina’s cronies when an influential business group with her blessing occupied it

Who will tie the bell around the cat’s neck?

Sale of substandard fertilizers goes on unabated at Baghabari Port 4,000 MTs of urea fertilizer still lying under open sky An influential quarter selling those secretly Sirajul Islam Shishir, back