Pvt sector credit growth hits 22-year low
Private sector credit growth in Bangladesh fell to record 6.40 per cent in June 2025, the lowest in 22 years, reflecting deepening stress in the country鈥檚 economy...
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Prime Bank, HATIL Complex sign deal
Prime Bank PLC and HATIL Complex Limited have recently signed an agreement to launch a strategic partnership, aiming to enhance HATIL鈥檚 financial operations through specialised payroll banking and digital cash management services...
Legal notoriety of cases against hundreds unnamed should end
THE legacy of filing cases against hundreds of unnamed people, as has been by successive governments, including the authoritarian Awami League government, regrettably persists. After the Awami League regime was toppled in an uprising, it was expected that the abuse of legal devices would end. But the legacy, unfortunately, continues apace. In the recent examples, the...
Doctor was forced to change Abu Sayeed鈥檚 post-mortem report five times: Al Jazeera
The doctor who conducted the autopsy of Abu Sayeed said that the police forced him to change the post-mortem report five times, reports Al Jazeera.
Yunus orders preparing list of people killed in AL attacks before mass uprising
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday ordered preparing a list of those killed in attacks by the Bangladesh Chhatra League and other affiliated bodies of Awami League, and also by state forces on the orders of the then government in the 15 years before the July mass uprising in 2024...
Challenges still remain in banking sector in Bangladesh
Bangladesh鈥檚 banking sector has seen some tangible reforms over the past one year under the interim government, but a sustainable recovery of the sector damaged badly during the past government is constrained by some knotty challenges such as rising non-performing loans, outdated regulations and weak institutional capacity, economists said...
PBIL wins three accolades
Prime Bank Investment, investment banking arm and wholly-owned subsidiary of Prime Bank, has earned three accolades at the Asian Banking & Finance Corporate & Investment Banking Awards 2025, said a press release...
Pretend play area for pre-primary classes
WE HAVE all seen children dress up as their heroes or pretend to be doctors, teachers, or other professionals during playtime. What seems like simple fun is actually something far more significant. It is how children make sense of their world, acting out experiences, ideas, or stories. Imagination, which lies at the heart of children鈥檚 role play, is even more vital than simply acquiring knowledge...
People鈥檚 aspirations expressed through graffiti during uprising: seminar
Artists and academics said that during the July mass uprising the people鈥檚 aspirations were expressed through various graffiti...
Ex-ASP Kafi remanded in BNP activist murder case
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former additional superintendent of police Abdullah Hil Kafi and former detective branch inspector聽Arafat Hossain on a two-day remand each in connection with the killing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist Mamun Khandaker in Ashulia during the July-August mass uprising...
Charge hearing on July 28
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday set July 28 for hearing charges against Begum Rokeya University vice-chancellor Hasibur Rashid Bachchu and 29 others, accused in connection with a crimes against humanity case over killing of Abu Sayeed during 2024 July uprising...
Prime Bank to give Tk聽5 Crore to support victims of Milestone plane crash
Prime Bank PLC has committed to contribute of Tk聽5 crore to support the medical treatment and rehabilitation of the critically injured students and teachers of the tragic aircraft crash at Milestone School and College at Uttara in Dhaka...
Price hikes nibble at demand for Lindt chocolate
Premium Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Sprungli hiked its 2025 sales target as cocoa price hikes passed on to customers outweighed a drop in volumes...
Venezuela says migrants were tortured in Salvadoran prison
Venezuela announced a probe Monday into torture claims by 252 migrants the United States had sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison where they said they were beaten, sexually abused and fed rotten food...
Amnesty urges probe into Israeli strike on Tehran prison
Amnesty International on Tuesday called for a war crimes investigation into Israel鈥檚 deadly air attack on Tehran鈥檚 Evin prison during last month鈥檚 12-day war...
No quota for July injured in public service
Liberation war affairs ministry adviser Faruk-e-Azam on Monday said that there would be no quota in government jobs for those recognised as 鈥楯uly fighters鈥�, injured in the July uprising in 2024...
EU marks July uprising
The Eastern University marked the anniversary of the July uprising with a discussion and documentary screening at the EU in Dhaka on Monday...
Extreme weather drives global food price hike: study
Climate change-driven extreme weather events are severely disrupting global food production, triggering record-breaking price surges and heightening health risks for vulnerable peoples in the countries, including Bangladesh, revealed an international study on Monday...
SAU VC urges all to make Bangladesh free from corruption
On the occasion of July Uprising鈥�24 Vice-chancellor of the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Professor Md Abdul Latif at a rally in Dhaka on Monday urged the people of the country to make Bangladesh free from corruption...
Most parties oppose party chief as PM
The majority of the 30 political parties on Monday agreed that a lawmaker could hold dual roles as the prime minister and as the leader of the parliament, but should not simultaneously serve as the chief of a political party...
Tajikistan鈥檚 apricot farmers grapple with climate change
Tajik apricot farmer Uktam Kuziev is worried about the future now that climate change is threatening Central Asia鈥檚 vital fruit harvest...
Deplorable delay in disbursing grants to July uprising victims
THE delay in disbursing grants and allowances to those wounded and to the families of those martyred during the July uprising is deeply disappointing. The interim government 鈥� formed after the student-led mass movement toppled the authoritarian Awami League government in August 2024 鈥� repeatedly pledged that support and rehabilitation for the victims would be...
Fatullah鈥檚 ex-OC jailed for hiding wealth info
A Dhaka court on Sunday convicted and sentenced Md Hasan Ali, former officer-in-charge of Fatullah police station, to two years imprisonment in a case lodged for concealing information about his wealth...
ULAB marks July uprising anniv with film screening, discussion
To mark the anniversary of the July uprising, the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh organised an event titled Remembering the July at the ULAB in Dhaka on Friday...
Many victims yet to get any help
Sufferings and disappointment of the people wounded in the July uprising deepens on as many of them have yet to receive any or furhter financial help from the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation...
Southeast University hosts discussion on July uprising
Southeast University has organised an event titled July Remembrance 2025 at the Multipurpose Hall of the university in Dhaka...
Prime Bank named 鈥楤est Bank for ESG鈥�2025鈥� by Euromoney
Prime鈥疊ank PLC has been named 鈥楤est Bank for ESG 2025鈥� in Bangladesh by Euromoney Awards for Excellence, said a press release...
Emerging right-wing politics a threat to democracy
WHILE the youth leaders of the victorious July uprising against the autocratic regime of Awami League, a year ago, announced that the spirit of their struggle was to establish a democratic polity and, that too, in the light of Bangladesh鈥檚 historic promise to establish equality, human dignity and social justice, the Jamaat-e-Islami and its political allies at a huge gathering on July...
Fakhrul says mid-Feb polls to ensure 鈥榯ruly representative govt鈥�
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday expressed hope that the forthcoming national election, pledged by the interim government for mid-February, would lead to the formation of a 鈥榯ruly representative government鈥�...
Saudi 鈥楽leeping鈥� Prince dies after nearly two decades in coma
Prince Alwaleed bin Khaled bin Talal, widely known as the 鈥楽leeping Prince,鈥� passed away on Saturday after spending nearly 20 years in a coma, following a serious traffic accident in London.
