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Jalil leaves for Singapore
The ailing Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil, out of jail on parole, left Dhaka for Singapore Monday night. A Singapore Airlines flight carrying Jalil took off from the Zia International Airport at around midnight. Tight security measures were taken as a wheelchair-bound Jalil arrived at the airport straight from his Gulshan residence at 10:45pm...[ + ]
HC allows Bhuiyan
to oppose
Khaleda’s writ
The High Court on Monday allowed BNP’s expelled secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan to oppose the writ petition filed by detained party chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging Election Commission’s attempt to hold dialogue with the party faction...[ + ]
Private banks to
cap lending rates
at 14.75pc
Twenty-nine private banks will reduce their industrial lending rates to a maximum of 14.75 per cent and the gap between deposit and lending rates to 5 per cent. They will set uniform ceiling for service and commission rates, Bangladesh Bank governor Salehuddin Ahmed said Monday after receiving a set of proposals from the banks.....[ + ]
Budget deficit
to widen by
Tk 3208cr
The government’s deficit financing is set to spiral out of the budgetary projection by Tk 3,208 crore due to soaring global prices of and higher spending on subsidies to petroleum, fertiliser and rice, highly-placed officials said. The budget deficit is now projected at Tk 25,521 crore or 4.77 per cent of the gross domestic product, up from 4.2 per cent expected in the current fiscal year...[ + ]
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