Bangladesh Bank notes

New Tk 500 banknote to hit market Thursday

The Bangladesh Bank will introduce a newly designed Tk 500 banknote on Thursday. .The note will first be issued from the BB’s Motijheel headquarters before being distributed through other branches across the country, the central bank said in a press release today..The new note featur
2 December 2025, 16:40 PM

The Tk 5 debate: Who deserves a place on our notes?

Bangladesh’s new Tk 5 note features 2024 protest icons Abu Sayeed and Mugdha, marking a bold shift toward memorialising civic dissent. The move stirs debate on balancing contemporary memory with timeless national history on currency.
22 May 2025, 10:24 AM

Buying new banknotes: An Eid tradition

What’s your earliest memory of Eid as a child? Waking up, taking a bath, saying the Eid prayer, and then collecting your salami from the elders? Surely you remember the salami being in the form of new banknotes? After all these years, new taka for Eid is still a thing. To cater to this need, there is a buoyant market where new banknotes are sold, a makeshift bazaar where new takas are the commodity!
19 April 2023, 15:30 PM

Commemorative Tk 100 note released marking Padma Bridge opening

Bangladesh Bank has released commemorative notes of Tk 100 on the occasion of the long-cherished Padma Bridge opening tomorrow (June 25, 2022).
24 June 2022, 09:04 AM