ePUAP still down before tonight's Trusted Profile maintenance; taka slides further

ePUAP, the platform for sending letters and applications to Polish public offices, had still not been restored by Friday 13 November, three days after the government took it offline following a cyberattack. Officials say the system was not compromised. The Internal Security Agency (ABW) has joined the investigation, and the attackers have not been identified.

A notice on gov.pl warns that Trusted Profile (Profil Zaufany), the national login node and electronic signature services may be unavailable from 18:00 tonight, Saturday 14 November, until 07:00 on Sunday.

Final figures published on 13 November confirm the flash estimate: consumer prices in October were 3.5% higher than a year earlier and 0.4% lower than in September. Services cost 4.9% more than a year ago, goods 2.9% more.

The same day, Statistics Poland reported that from January to September 2026 imports (PLN 1,285.5 billion) exceeded exports (PLN 1,248.1 billion), leaving a trade deficit of PLN 37.4 billion.

Leaders of five labour alliances, at a joint press conference in Dhaka on 13 November, urged garment workers to return to their workplaces while the government's minimum wage board works on a new pay scale.

The government was also expected to start a special Open Market Sale (OMS) programme on 13 November, letting each garment worker buy up to 10 kg of rice a month at a subsidised Tk 30 per kg, as living costs squeeze household budgets.

Bangladesh Bank sold about $201 million to banks through an auction on 12 November to steady the foreign exchange market, bankers told The Daily Star. The taka still weakened: the weighted average interbank rate rose to Tk 124.75 per dollar from Tk 124.65 the day before.

The dollar has been gaining against the taka for a couple of months as demand grows to pay import bills, particularly for fuel and essential goods ahead of Ramadan.

A forensic audit by a panel formed by the planning ministry found that Bangladesh's GDP growth figures were overstated by 0.7 to 1.3 percentage points since fiscal year 2014-15. The findings were presented on 14 November at a seminar at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in Dhaka.

Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, finance and planning adviser to the prime minister, said the overstatement served political interests and was most visible in sectors where estimates relied on administrative or secondary data instead of reliable primary data.