Senior bureaucrat Sharf Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury has been appointed as the new secretary of the Ministry of Textiles and Jute, following a recent government reshuffle, according to an official notification issued on Wednesday (June 17).
The government is set to establish free trade zones across the country as part of a strategy to expand international trade, attract domestic and foreign investment, strengthen supply chains and support industrial development.
International human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an immediate halt to the alleged forced pushback of ethnic Bengali Muslims from India into Bangladesh, expressing deep concern over what it describes as a growing humanitarian and human rights crisis along the border.
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has provided an additional Tk 1,500 crore in liquidity support to Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC, bringing the total emergency lending to Tk 6,500 crore in just three days as the country’s largest Shariah-based lender struggles with mounting cash pressure.
Police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested six members of the notorious “Kabji Kata Anwar” gang, including its second-in-command Abu Sayeed, in connection with a violent robbery on a bKash agent and subsequent attack on police in Dhaka’s Adabar area.
Police have recovered the body of a 24-year-old woman from a flat in the capital's Mirpur Kazipara area after breaking open the door with the assistance of the Fire Service.