The following is a recap of those major stories as covered by Star Business

China has told its largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing unidentified sources, as the war in the Middle East risks an energy supply crunch.

106 return daily flights operating by Saturday

A US judge on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to stop assessing global tariffs on imports where customs payments have not been finalized, a move some experts view as a step towards broader refunds.

Numbers rarely lie, even when Trump is in the room. But they do have a habit of whispering truths our profession would rather not discuss over coffee. Bangladesh’s latest audit statistics are doing exactly that.

Banks can now rent office space for branches and other business centres without prior approval from the central bank, provided the rent remains within a maximum limit.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has ordered income tax officials to use import data directly when calculating tax liabilities, a move aimed at curbing evasion and easing the refund burden on businesses.

Md Ahsan Ullah, adviser to the Bangladesh Bank governor, has resigned from his post, citing discomfort following an incident of a “mobocratic nature” at the central bank headquarters.

Rising food and service costs are eroding household purchasing power, particularly for lower-income groups whose consumption baskets are more heavily weighted toward essentials, according to the latest monthly economic update by the General Economics Division (GED).

Authorities have shut five of the country’s six urea fertiliser factories as a precaution amid fears of gas supply disruptions caused by the widening war in the Middle East and Iran’s closure of the Hormuz Strait, a key global energy route.

Depositors of five merged Islamic banks staged a demonstration in front of the headquarters of Bangladesh Bank yesterday, demanding the return of their deposits and the cancellation of a proposed “haircut” on their funds.

China set its annual growth target at 4.5-5 percent on Thursday, its lowest figure in decades but at the centre of plans to tackle sluggish consumption and a flagging property market.

The bank’s bad loan comes down to 27% from 42%

Divergence between wage growth and price inflation widened further in January 2026.

Airline says more than 100 flights will depart Dubai on March 5-6

The central bank also withdraws prior approval requirement

The protestors said many depositors had been unable to withdraw either their principal or profit from the banks for the past two years

He submitted his resignation to the new BB Governor, Md Mostaqur Rahman, yesterday

The new governor of the Bangladesh Bank has made his first major policy move.

Despite a slight improvement toward the end of the year, Dhaka’s luxury hotel industry struggled through much of 2025 amid political uncertainty, economic slowdown and declining foreign tourist arrivals.