Bangladesh Bank officials described it as an additional international payment channel alongside existing systems such as SWIFT, saying it could broaden options for trade and business payments.

The decision was made at a board meeting held at the Bangladesh Bank head office yesterday (9 June), chaired by Governor Mostakur Rahman.

Among the proposals is a new advance tax collection mechanism under which dealers would collect Tk2 in advance tax for every Tk1,000 worth of goods purchased by retailers.

The assailants allegedly entered the house by cutting window grilles, looted cash and gold jewellery, and fled after the attack; the teenage girl is in ICU with critical injuries ...

The May shipments came in two phases through the pipeline from Assam's Numaligarh Refinery Limited to Bangladesh’s Parbatipur depot ...

He also said the estimated additional subsidy requirement includes around Tk10,258 crore for fuel oil, Tk11,170 crore for gas, Tk19,821 crore for electricity and nearly Tk1,350 crore for fertiliser ...

The benchmark DSEX index at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose 36 points to 5,519, while turnover jumped 29% to a multi-week high of Tk1,387 crore ...

According to Iran's foreign ministry, the hashtag-style badge is meant to honour 168 children who were killed in an elementary school incident on 28 February 2026, the first day of the US–Iran ...

An elderly man has gone missing from Dhaka's Farmgate area on Saturday (6 June). The missing man has been identified as Mobarak Hossain, 69. According to family members, he was last seen at around ...

A video purporting to show the aftermath of a deadly strike on the city's eastern edge, whose location was verified by Reuters, showed debris strewn all along one ​road. Lebanese state media said ...

A 27-year-long search for identity ended in an emotional reunion in Chattogram yesterday (8 June) after a DNA test confirmed the biological relationship between a father and son, allowing the son to ...

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