Jahir Rayhan

Jahir Rayhan is a Staff Correspondent at The Business Standard. He specializes in the private sector, investment, economic zones and commodity markets. He has been working in these fields for nine years. He can be reached at jahir.rayhan88@gmail.com
 

TBS Sketch
Supplement

'We reorganised BIDA around the investor life cycle'

Representational image. Picture: Pixabay
Bangladesh

No candidate or party can use loudspeakers for campaigning after 8pm: EC

Representational image of voting in Bangladesh. File photo: Collected
Politics

13th national election: Why four parties fielded only one candidate each?

Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Expat voter brings ballot home, finds no legal way to submit it

Logo of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
Politics

BNP alone fields over 14.5% out of total 1,981 candidates

Unauthorised election campaign posters of leaders of different political parties. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
Politics

Posters banned in election campaigns; environmentally harmful banners prohibited

Illustration: TBS
Politics

1,981 candidates vie for 298 seats as Dhaka emerges most competitive

BNP set to contest 285 seats, Jamaat 215, NCP 30 as nomination withdrawal deadline ends
Politics

BNP set to contest 285 seats, Jamaat 215, NCP 30 as nomination withdrawal deadline ends

Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Domestic postal ballot change likely; EC to meet parties

Election Commission building at Agargaon in the capital. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Politics

Appeal hearings end: EC clears most candidates in dual citizenship appeals

Rawhide salting at Posta in Old Dhaka on Eid-ul-Adha 2025. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Industry

Lease term, loan settlement emerge as challenges over Savar Tannery shift to Bepza

File photo of Election Commission building in Agargaon. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Bangladesh

No evidence of postal ballot irregularities, says EC amid BNP, Jamaat concerns

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Supplement

How Fakir Fashion achieved buyers' confidence