The Bangladesh Bank today raised the interest rate for loans from its export development fund (EDF) by 1 percentage point with a view to making borrowing costlier and thus saving foreign currencies.

Stocks fell for the second consecutive day today, but the turnover experienced a 20 per cent rise.

Seventy top and mid ranking police officials were transferred and given new posting today (November 8, 2022).

At least five dengue patients died while 820 others were admitted to different hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours till this morning (November 8, 2022).

A Khulna court today sentenced six people to death for raping a 14-year-old girl in Bihari Colony area of the city in June of 2019.

No Covid-19 deaths were reported in 24 hours till 8am today (November 8, 2022), said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A probe committee has been formed to investigate the allegation brought against five identified persons who were “involved in making and editing the HSC Bangla first part exam's question” which hurt religious sentiments of Hindus.

Buet student Fardin Noor Parash, whose body was recovered from Shitalakkhya river near Narayanganj's Siddhirganj yesterday afternoon, was murdered.

Thirty-one people including 11 policemen were injured during a clash between BNP men and law enforcers in Kishoreganj today (November 7, 2022).

The High Court today (November 7, 2022) directed the government to stop operations of all illegal brick kilns in four districts -- Bogura, Tangail, Lalmonirhat, and Thakurgaon -- immediately in a bid to curb environment pollution and also asked them to submit compliance reports before it within two weeks.

A rumour was going on that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may ask the stockmarket regulator to lift the floor price as a condition of a new $4.5 billion loan, but the lender did not raise the issue in a meeting with the BSEC today.

No Covid-19 deaths were reported in 24 hours till 8am today (November 7, 2022), said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Western Marine Shipyard Limited posted losses in the financial year that ended on June 30.

Customs intelligence officials arrested a passport-holding passenger with nine gold bars at Benapole checkpost while smuggling those into India today (November 7, 2022).

Aspirants of Rangpur City Corporation election will be able to submit nomination papers until November 29, according to the schedule announced by the Election Commission (EC) today (November 7, 2022).

The High Court today (November 7, 2022) extended its earlier orders that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two defamation cases until its disposals at the trial courts.

The exchange rate of dollar needs to be freed to make the garment business profitable at this crisis time, said a top leader of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) today.

"Complacency has brought us to the current forex reserve situation,” said Salehuddin Ahmed, former governor of the Bangladesh Bank.

The government should come up with a clear strategy to stop fast depletion of the foreign currency reserves in a bid to save the country from a major crisis, said a noted economist today.

The external factors are not only responsible for Bangladesh’s present economic volatility, rather there are some issues which remained unattended for a long time such as low revenue collection, absence of quality public expenditure and the non-performing loans, said noted economist Debapriya Bhattacharya today.