A Chattogram court today (September 20, 2022) sentenced Nurjahan group Chairman and Managing Director Zahir Ahammed to one year in jail and fined him Tk 2.5 lakh in a case filed by BSTI for marketing low-quality edible oil.

The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of "The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution Act, 2018", incorporating provisions of harsher punishment under the existing law.