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Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said on Saturday that sustainable development can be ensured by building robust digital infrastructure, expanding financial inclusion and bringing the rural economy under digital systems. “The marginalised sections of society need to be brought into the economic mainstream through robust internet connectivity, ‘one citizen, one wallet’ and digitalisation of the rural economy,” he said. ...

Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini accessed and breached the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity test in May, marking the first known instance of a Google AI system autonomously carrying out such actions. The incidents occurred during a security evaluation conducted by Irregular, an independent company that tests the cybersecurity capabilities of AI models, according to Google and ...

  By Matiar Chowdhury:   London, 18 September 2026 — The Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA) has announced that the 19th BCA Awards will take place on Sunday, 1 November 2026, at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel, Central London. The announcement was made at a press conference by senior BCA leaders, who revealed this year’s theme: The BCA Awards have become one of the most ...

UK-based Menzies Aviation plans to invest US$12 million and create more than 1,000 direct jobs in its first year if selected as the second passenger-handling operator for the 3rd terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). The company announced the proposed investment and employment plans at a press conference at a city hotel on Thursday. Menzies said its operations could ...

BARI has received international recognition for its climate-resilient groundnut variety, BARI Chinabadam-9, which was selected for its potential to improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods. The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has won the ISSCA Global Award 2026 in the ‘Crop Development and Production Technology’ category for its groundnut variety BARI Chinabadam-9. The award was presented at the Dryland Congress 2026 in ...

In another blow to global oil markets, drones struck Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline last Thursday (10 September), prompting the kingdom to suspend operations. The 1,200km (746-mile) pipeline, which carries roughly 4 to 5 million barrels of oil per day (bpd), links the country’s major oil-producing fields in the east with the Red Sea port of Yanbu, allowing Saudi Arabia ...

Power generation at the Rampal coal-fired power plant fell by half on Sunday noon after its second unit shut down due to a technical glitch. The plant’s power supply to the national grid fell to 600-megawatt from 1,100-megawatt due to the technical issue, which would take at least four days to resolve, said Anwarul Azim, general manager at the power ...

RSGT Bangladesh has achieved a landmark milestone in vessel productivity, recording up to 58 moves and handling 82 Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) containers per hour while handling MV WANEN, a CMA CGM vessel, at Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) of Chattogram port. The achievement represents almost double the historical productivity level at Chattogram Port, traditionally averaging around 30 moves/48 TEUs per ...

Gold prices have fallen in the local market, with the price of 22-carat gold dropping by Tk 2,158 per bhori. The new rates, announced by the Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS), came into effect at 10:00 AM on Friday. According to the revised rates, the price of 22-carat gold has been reduced to Tk 231,880 per bhori. The price of 21-carat ...

Speakers on Thursday said climate action must ensure decent work, protect livelihoods and promote inclusive growth, calling for reliable, disaggregated data to identify vulnerable groups and better target social safety net programmes. They also recommended for focusing on creating employment through green transition, requiring sector an occupation level mapping to identify where jobs will be generated or lost. Thy made ...