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NBR draws up four-year plan

The tax authority has prepared a four-year plan to modernise the customs department and rationalise customs fees.Under the Strategic Action Plan, the customs wing will review the existing customs fees and charges while ensuring these are commensurate with the administrative costs of providing services.The plan for 2019-22 has targeted time-bound...

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2.0m Hajj pilgrims converge on

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia, Aug 10 (AFP): Two million Muslim pilgrims converged on Mount Arafat outside Mecca Saturday marshalled by tens of thousands of stewards in a bid to prevent any repetition of previous years' deadly stampedes.Movable crowd control barriers were erected all around the foot of the rocky hill,...

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Eid-day tomorrow

The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country tomorrow (Monday) with due solemnity and religious fervour, report agencies.The Eid-ul-Azha is celebrated on the 10th of Zilhajj month of the Hizri calendar as Hazrat Ibrahim (AS), on this day, some 4,500 years...

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Minor girl dies in Barishal as 2,176 more infected

This time, a 10-year-old girl died of dengue in Barishal on Saturday as the viral disease kept spreading fast to elsewhere outside Dhaka city.Sources said the girl identified as Rusho lost her fight against the deadly virus in the morning at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.Meanwhile, public-health experts in Dhaka are...

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Holidaymakers' woes mount on ways home

Sufferings of holidaymakers continued on Saturday amid severe breakdown of schedules of both trains and buses along with nagging traffic congestions on key highways.Passengers of water ways also suffered at the Paturia terminal in Manikganj due to long tailback. Though the government claimed that Eid journey was smooth with no...

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EU trade mission to visit Bangladesh in mid-Oct

A high-powered European Union (EU) trade mission will visit Bangladesh in mid-October mainly to review Bangladesh's eligibility to retain the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility there, officials said.During its three-day visit from October 14, the mission is scheduled to hold meetings with authorities concerned and oversee labour rights situation...

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PM to exchange Eid greetings

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will exchange greetings with the cross section of people, including party leaders and workers, judges and foreign diplomats, at her official Ganobhaban residence on Eid day tomorrow (Monday). She will first exchange Eid greetings with the people of all classes and professions, her party men, poets,...

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College girl dies after fall from city high-rise

A teenage college student died after falling off a high-rise building in city's Motijheel. The girl has been identified as 17-year-old Tanzina Akter Rupa, a grade 11 student of Al Ahmed School and College in the capital's Goran, the area of her residence. It is unclear how the girl fell...

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