Bangladesh
The Supreme Court stayed a High Court ruling on experience requirements for senior posts in MPO-listed institutions, allowing recruitment for around 15,000 headteacher, principal and related vacancies to proceed.
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Bangladesh
The housing ministry is preparing a decade-long urban-development strategy, starting with metropolitan cities before expanding to larger cities and upazilas. The plan emphasises zoning, development control and city-specific master plans.
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Bangladesh
The Liberation War Affairs Ministry says it will prepare accurate lists of martyrs, freedom fighters and Biranganas and will stop accepting new freedom-fighter enlistment applications after 7 October.
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Bangladesh
Australia signed a multi-year A$18 million assistance agreement with BRAC for Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi host communities, covering healthcare, water, sanitation, education, protection and disaster resilience.
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Politics
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman told Hindu and Buddhist representatives that religion, race or identity should not limit citizens’ rights or opportunities. The government also approved festival support for religious welfare trusts.
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Politics
Police arrested a man after a mob allegedly stormed Rajshahi Medical University and forced its vice-chancellor and an official to sign resignation letters. Doctors have protested against the incident.
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Politics
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 completed arguments in a case against Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif and three other fugitives over six deaths during the July uprising. The case is now awaiting verdict.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh’s headline inflation rose to 8.34% in September from 8.26% in August, as food inflation increased to 7.22%. Non-food inflation eased slightly, while rural households faced a somewhat higher overall rate than urban consumers.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh’s economy expanded 4.60% year on year in the April-June quarter of FY2025-26, up from 2.05% a year earlier. Industry and services drove the rebound, while full-year growth was estimated at 3.68%.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh’s trade deficit widened to $3.82 billion in the first two months of FY27 as imports rose 12.1%, faster than export growth of 5.8%. Stronger remittances helped keep the current account in surplus.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh approved $3.3 billion in non-concessional borrowing, including $3.1 billion for fuel oil and LNG imports and $200 million for power-distribution upgrades. The package reflects urgent energy-financing needs.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank signed $275 million in concessional loans and a $2.72 million grant for affordable housing finance and electricity infrastructure in the Chattogram Hill Tracts.
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Business & Economy
British and Chinese investors are proposing $23 million to restart Prefix Fashions at Beximco Industrial Park under a five-year leasing arrangement. The plan still requires government approval.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh wants bilateral trade with Indonesia to exceed $10 billion, while narrowing a large imbalance. Officials discussed garment, pharmaceutical and agricultural exports and reviving stalled preferential-trade negotiations.
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Business & Economy
US apparel imports from Bangladesh fell 4.43% to $5.39 billion in January-August, compared with a 7.42% decline in total US clothing imports. China and India recorded much steeper falls.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh and the UAE are scheduled to sign a 15-year concession for DP World to operate Chattogram Port’s New Mooring Container Terminal. Port workers have threatened action against the handover.
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Business & Economy
Bangladesh’s aviation regulator raised domestic Jet A-1 fuel to Tk182.71 per litre for October, 10.3% above September. The international-flight rate also rose to $1.1882 per litre before duties and VAT.
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Business & Economy
ATM, card, POS, e-commerce and related payment services have resumed across around 30 banks after a Q-Cash system migration caused a two-day disruption. Bangladesh Bank had directed the operator to restore services quickly.
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Health & Food
The health ministry plans to install 17 new radiotherapy machines at public hospitals by June next year, with six in Dhaka and 11 elsewhere, as patients face long waits for cancer treatment.
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Health & Food
Bangladesh recorded eight dengue deaths and 1,860 new hospital admissions in the latest 24-hour reporting period. The 2026 death toll reached 289, with more than 92,000 hospitalised since January.
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Health & Food
DGHS data reported six additional deaths involving measles or measles-like symptoms, taking the combined confirmed and suspected toll to 1,140. Another 1,280 suspected cases were recorded in 24 hours.
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Health & Food
The government will launch a nationwide family-planning campaign from 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2027, combining public awareness with doorstep contraceptive supplies, counselling and related services.
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Health & Food
Bangladesh’s 22-day hilsa conservation ban runs from 8 to 29 October, covering catching, transport, storage, marketing and sale. Registered fishing families are due to receive rice support during the closure.
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World
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries that transformed scientists’ ability to create one preferred mirror-image form of a molecule, with major importance for pharmaceuticals.
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World
Myanmar’s military-backed president Min Aung Hlaing began a two-day visit to Malaysia, where repatriation of Myanmar nationals is on the agenda. Rights groups have criticised returns while conflict continues.
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