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35,000 BGB members to be deployed for national election: home adviser

Staff Correspondent: Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday said around 35,000 Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members will be deployed during the upcoming national parliamentary election. He

Janata Bank’s top 33 clients default on Tk56,131cr

TDS Desk: State-owned Janata Bank’s exposure to a small group of risky borrowers has intensified, with defaulted loans from just 33 large clients now totalling Tk56,131 crore. The records show

Tk25 lakh cap on election campaign spending lifted, experts call for strict monitoring

TDS Desk: The Election Commission (EC) has adopted a new framework for determining how much candidates can spend on election campaigning in the upcoming national election. Whereas in the last

Decades of foreign-funded local governance projects yield little while debt mounts

TDS Desk: Despite 25 years of foreign loans for local governance and capacity-building projects, Bangladesh has seen limited gains while debt burdens and dependence on external financing have increased manyfold,

Demand of warm clothes on the rise as cold wave hits normal life in Belkuchi

Al-Amin Hossain, Belkuchi: A sudden cold wave has swept across the country, bringing bone-chilling temperatures and dense fog that have disrupted daily life. To cope with the severe cold, a

After mob violence, there is talk, but no justice

TDS Desk: Mob violence has become a new source of fear in everyday life in Bangladesh. Incidents of mob violence and lynching have increased alarmingly across the country. In 2025