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Journo couple Shakil-Rupa put on 5-day remand

Staff Reporter: Journalist couple Shakil Ahmed and Farzana Rupa have been placed on a five-day police remand in connection with a murder case in Mirpur. Prior to this, they had been remanded twice in another case filed at Adabor Police Station.On Monday (February 17), Metropolitan Magistrate GM Farhan Ishtiaq granted the remand after a hearing. Inspector Nasir Uddin Sarker of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sought a five-day remand for further interrogation. State prosecutor Omar Faruq Faruqi argued in favor of the remand, wh...

Electoral reform agenda in Bangladesh

The deadly 2024 protests in Bangladesh ousted Prime Minister Sheik Hasina and ended her 15-year rule. An interim government, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, was then formed. Efforts to reform government and other institutions ensued including the formation of the Electoral Reform Commission. Bangladesh has consistently ranked low in global democracy and freedom indices. In Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2024 report, Bangladesh was tagged as "partly fre...

Current account logs surplus after a year

According to the latest data released by the Bangladesh Bank, the central Bank of Bangladesh, the country's current account balance recorded a surplus after nearly a year. According to the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the current account balance showed a surplus of 33 million U.S. dollars during the first half of 2024-25 fiscal year against a deficit of 3.47 billion dollars during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year (July 2023-June 2024). A BB official who preferred to be unnamed said the c...

Remittance inflows reach Tk16,000cr in 15 days

Staff Reporter:

Bangladesh has received remittances totaling $1.312 billion (Tk 16,009 crore at an exchange rate of Tk 122 per dollar) in the first 15 days of February 2025.

Earlier, in January, expatriate Bangladeshis sent $2.19 billion in remittances. For the last six consecutive months, since August of the current fiscal year, remittance inflows have exceeded $2 billion each month.

According to th...

Two businesses fined Tk9,000 in Chuadanga

Chuadanga Correspondent:

The National Consumer Rights Protection Directorate (NCRPD) of Chuadanga conducted an operation in the Bara Bazar area of Chuadanga town and fined two businesses Tk 9,000 for not displaying proper price lists.

During the raid, wholesale and retail shops selling essential commodities were monitored. Sheikh Barek Store, owned by Md. Abdul Basit Sheikh, was fined Tk 2,000, while M

Consumers to get beef at Tk 650 per kg during Ramadan

bdreports24 Desk:  The government will sell beef at Tk 650 per kg through mobile trucks during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan so that consumers can get essential protein sources along with mutton, milk, eggs, and fish, as part of its regular initiative at an affordable price during Ramadan. Farida Akhter, the Fisheries and Livestock Adviser, announced this today after an event at the Agricultural Research Council in Farmgate, Dhaka.

"The ministry initially decided not to sell beef and mutton ...

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