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Provision shortfall in banks surges to Tk 1.7 lakh crore

The provision shortfall in Bangladesh’s banking sector surged to a record Tk 1.7 lakh crore at the end of March 2025, reflecting a 61 per cent increase in just three months as banks’ distressed assets continued to surge alarmingly...

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Shakil, Farzana return to jail after parole

Ekattor Television’s former chief news editor Shakil Ahmed and his wife, former chief reporter and anchor Farzana Rupa returned to jail on Wednesday after four-hour parole to attend the funeral of Farzana’s mother in Mymensingh...

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Vision AC launches money-back offer

Vision on Wednesday launched its ‘Money back guarantee offer’ campaign in an event in Dhaka, said a press release...

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Azhar’s death sentence overturned

The Appellate Division on Tuesday overturned its 2019 judgement that had upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the 1971 liberation war...

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EZ products not exempted from VAT, rules AD

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled that products, including edible oil, sugar, cement, and iron, manufactured in the country’s economic zones are not exempted from value-added tax, overturning a High Court verdict that had declared such taxation illegal...

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SC quashes graft proceedings against Mirza Abbas

The Appellate Division on Wednesday quashed the corruption proceedings against former housing and public works minister and senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Mirza Abbas over alleged irregularities in allocating government land for a journalists’ cooperative society in Mirpur...

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Radical restructuring is no answer

WHILE the National Consensus Commission has dominated headlines with its efforts to forge consensus on critical constitutional issues, the ministry of finance has proposed a seismic shift in the country’s revenue sector: dismantling the National Board of Revenue and the Internal Resource Division to create two new divisions under direct ministerial control. This move...

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Strategic vision or policy daydream

BRIGADIER General (Retd) HRM Rokan Uddin’s recent call for rethinking Bangladesh’s defence reforms, published in ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·, deserves recognition for reigniting a largely dormant strategic debate. His essay presents an aspirational vision for modernising Bangladesh’s armed forces in a time of shifting global power dynamics, emerging hybrid threats, and evolving...

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Focused policies, plans needed to address child poverty

A PERSISTENT high rate of child poverty and a widening gap between child poverty rates between rural and urban areas and different parts of the country are concerning. A General Economics Division study, The urban-rural dichotomy: a comparative analysis of child poverty in Bangladesh, says that the national average child poverty rate is 16.49 per cent, with an...

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GED against IMF-prescribed market-based exchange rate

General Economics Division member Monzur Hossain on Wednesday said that they did not support a more flexible exchange rate policy as suggested by the International Monetary Fund under its current $4.7 billion loan programme...

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EX-ISKCON LEADER CHINMOY’S BAIL: SC withdraws stay on HC bail

The Appellate Division’s chamber judge on Wednesday withdrew an order that stayed the High Court’s bail granted to former International Society for Krishna Consciousness leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in a sedition case over alleged desecration of the national flag...

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Mahmudullah loses his cool after DPL defeat

Mohammedan Sporting Club’s veteran all-rounder Mahmudullah lost his temper after his team’s defeat to Abahani Limited in the title decider match of the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Tuesday.

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Abahani beat Mohammedan for third straight DPL title

Abahani Limited clinched the Dhaka Premier League title for the third straight time after thrashing arch-rivals Mohammedan by six wickets in the last match of the league at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Tuesday.

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Hridoy banned for four matches after latest breach

Mohammedan Sporting Club captain Towhid Hridoy has been banned for four matches after being found guilty of breaching the BCB Code of Conduct during the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League match against Gazi Group Cricketers at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on April 26.

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SC to hear state plea against Aug 21 grenade attack judgment Sunday

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is likely to hold hearing on a leave to appeal petition filed by the state against the High Court judgment that acquitted all the people convicted by the lower court in murder and the Explosives Substances Act cases filed over the 2004 grenade attack on Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka, on May 4.

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Mohammedan keep DPL title hopes alive

Nasum Ahmed and Saif Uddin propelled Mohammedan Sporting Club to secure a thrilling four-wicket win over Gazi Group Cricketers in the ongoing Super League of Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

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Brothers safe, Partex, Shinepukur relegated from DPL

Brothers Union retained its place in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League as they thrashed Partex Sporting Club by 113 runs in their final match of the relegation round at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Thursday.

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Fahim appointed convenor of CCDM technical committee

Nazmul Abedeen Fahim was appointed as the convenor of the technical committee of the CCDM after the resignation of Enamul Haque following the recent events that sparked much controversy in the country’s cricket fraternity...

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Soumya smashes 153, Anamul’s ton in vain

Soumya Sarkar smashed 153 off 112 balls as Legends of Rupganj crushed Agrani Bank Cricket Club by 103 runs in the ongoing Super League of the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the BKSP-4 on Wednesday...

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SC quashes money laundering proceedings against Professor Yunus

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday scrapped all proceedings in the money laundering case against Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and seven others, bringing an end to a contentious legal battle that had drawn national and international attention for two years...

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SC full bench to hear Azhar’s petition on May 6

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday set May 6 for the hearing on a petition filed by condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam seeking a review of the court’s earlier decision upholding his death sentence.

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Zahiduzzaman keeps Brothers alive in DPL

Zahiduzzaman Khan’s unbeaten 85 off 88 guided Brothers Union to a comfortable six-wicket win over Shinepukur Cricket Club in the Relegation League of the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Monday. 

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Rony, Anamul tons light up DPL Super league

Rony Talukdar smashed a blistering 122 off 100 balls as Mohammedan Sporting Club beat Agrani Bank Cricket Club by seven wickets in their Super League match of the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the BKSP-3 on Sunday.

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32,000 cases pending with AD

Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has constituted two more benches in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in an effort to ease the growing backlog of pending cases.

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Rubel-ton led Partex to win

Rubel Mia’s hundred led Partex Sporting Club to a 19-run win over the Shinepukur Cricket Club in the Relegation League of the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Friday. 

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Abahani back on top

Abahani Limited returned to the top of the table as they beat Agrani Bank Cricket Club by four wickets in DLS method in their opening match of the Super League of the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the BKSP-3 on Thursday.

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Medium-term budgetary framework by Apr 24

The Finance Division on Wednesday asked different ministries and divisions to complete over a dozen steps by April 24 in connection with finalising the estimate of the national budget for the 2025-26 financial year...