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Muhith clueless about data on jobless growth

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday described the data on jobless growth in the country as an enigma, claiming that many sectors are still facing difficulty in hiring workers.Sectors like agriculture find it hard to employ labourers to cultivate crops, he said on Sunday.Mr Muhith felt that people were somehow...

Audit exemption only if income is 15pc higher

No taxpayer will be able to get exemption from any audit by showing only a gross increase in the annual income compared to that of the previous year, according to a new guideline.Taxpayers now will have to show an increase by 15 per cent in income from the particular sources...

Access to financing the major barrier for e-commerce start-ups

Access to entrepreneurial financing is the major barrier for e-commerce start-ups in Bangladesh, says a recent global report coming from ADB and UN. The country is also suffering from huge rural-urban divide and gender disparity when it comes to e-commerce activities, said the report. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United...

Panel to review global practices about quota system for govt jobs

The committee formed to review the quota system for government jobs has decided to collect information on the quota system from various sources worldwide in addition to setting a work process during its first meeting, reports bdnews24.com.The one-and-a-half-hour meeting chaired by Cabinet Secretary Mohammed Shafiul Alam was held on Sunday....

Four Thai boys exit cave, rescue operation resumes today

CHIANG RAI, Thailand, July 8 (Reuters): Four of 12 Thai schoolboys were rescued from a flooded cave on Sunday as divers launched a daring and dangerous mission to free the children and their soccer coach who have been trapped underground for more than two weeks, officials said.Thirteen foreign divers and...

A woman coming out of her house at a village submerged by floodwater

A woman coming out of her house at a village submerged by floodwater in Kurigram on Sunday — Focus Bangla

News Watch (9-7-2018)

Three die in anti-drug raidsThree people, two in Jhenaidah and one in Mymensingh, were killed in 'shootouts' during anti-drug raids across the country. Two people were killed in an alleged shootout with RAB in the Pabhati Jamtola area in Jhenaidah. The dead were identified as Sajjadul Islam, 42, and Abdur...