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February inflation edges down slightly to 9.32pc, food inflation at 9.24pc

Staff Correspondent: Inflation in Bangladesh continued its downward trend in February at 9.32%, slightly lower than January’s 9.94%, according to the latest data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)

Dates sold at twice the import price

Staff Correspondent: Most of the imported dates in Bangladesh are of the Zahidi variety from Iraq. These dates are imported in both sacks and cartons. Over the past two months,

2 held with 15,000 Yaba pills in Sirajganj

Staff Reporter: Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Thursday arrested two drug peddlers along with 15,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from Kuthirchar area in Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj district. The

Former Sirajganj MP Abdul Aziz remanded

Staff Reporter: A Sirajganj court on Wednesday granted a one-day remand for former lawmaker Md Abdul Aziz of Sirajganj-3 in connection with a case filed over an attack on an

Officials, experts of Bangladesh, India to sit over Ganges water talks

Staff Correspondent: After an intensive on-the-spot survey for two days of the current status of the flow in the Ganges river at Farakka in West Bengal, technical experts and senior

BUILD proposes flat 10pc VAT rate

Staff Correspondent: Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) – a private sector think tank – has proposed setting a flat value-added tax (VAT) rate at 10%, suggesting that it could help