Dhaka police suspends two sub-inspectors (SI) for torturing two officials in Mohammadpur and Jatrabari. SI Masud Shikder of Mohammadpur Police Station and SI Arshadul Islam Akash of Jatrabari Police Station were suspended for beating up and allegedly threatening central bank official Golam Rabbi on January 9 and DSCC Conservancy Officer Bikash Chandra Das yesterday respectively.

One week into the alleged torture of a Bangladesh Bank official, on duty policemen beat up an inspector of Dhaka South City Corporation in Jatrabari area of the capital allegedly for no reason.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) appoints an observer in the board of Farmers Bank in a bid to improve the health of the newly established bank.

Bangladesh Bank governor in a letter called upon the police chief to ensure justice for alleged police torture of an official of the central bank.

A sub-inspector of Mohammadpur Police Station has been closed for allegedly torturing a Bangladesh Bank official and threatening to implicate him in a lawsuit if he fails to pay a Tk 5 lakh bribe.

Bangladesh Bank directs all banks not to take any fees in the form of pay order or bank draft from job applicants.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith says there is no scope to change the newly announced national pay scale.

World Bank Senior Vice President and chief economist Dr Kaushik Basu says poor infrastructure and slow bureaucracy are two major challenges for Bangladesh’s economy, which is according to him, is standing at the ‘takeoff stage’.

Scam-hit BASIC Bank suspends four of its top officials as part of its efforts to rid the state lender of financial anomalies that cost it thousands of crores of taka in recent years.

Bangladesh, with the support and vision of the Bangladesh Bank, has seen remarkable progress in Mobile Financial Services (MFS) in recent years.

The central bank appoints four observers to the boards of four state-owned commercial banks.

High Court issues a rule asking why BASIC Bank’s former chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu will not be implicated in cases filed over loan scam worth Tk 154 crore.

The foreign currency reserve of Bangladesh hits a new record crossing a $ 27-billion mark.

Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country’s central bank, removes Mohammad Lutfar Rahman, also known as Badal, from IFIC Bank’s board of directors.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) launches Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) with 55 banks.

Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has been awarded with "Central Bank Governor of the Year 2015, Asia".

The Bangladesh Bank will circulate around Tk 25,000 crore worth of new notes in the economy ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

Bangladesh Bank recently announced its monetary policy for the fiscal year 2016. As always, the announcement has sparked a number of criticisms.

New Bangladeshi citizens from the former enclaves will get farm loans and CSR budgets from the scheduled banks operating in the country.

Bangladesh Bank awards 31 non-resident Bangladeshis for sending the highest amount of remittances last year to encourage the expatriates to send money home through legal channels.