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Avoid 'cut and paste' type budget for next fiscal year

The country's investment development authorities, on Monday, sought adequate policy support from the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to further promote investment while making the existing initiatives successful.They said such policy support from the NBR will help generate more employment and transform the country's existing trade-based economy into a production-based...

No one involved in murder to be spared, PM tells Nusrat's family

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reaffirmed on Monday that no one of those involved in the killing of Feni's madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi will be spared, reports UNB.Sheikh Hasina made the remark when Nusrat's family members met her at her official residence Ganobhaban, said PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim.Nusrat's parents-AKM...

Dhaka, Thimphu to sign transit agreement soon

An agreement on the movement of goods in transit between Bangladesh and Bhutan will be finalised soon at the next commerce secretary-level meeting.This was revealed in a joint statement on the state visit of Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr. Lotay Tshering, to Bangladesh issued by the Foreign Ministry.The joint statement referred...

Finance minister seeks enhanced WB support

Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought increased funds from the World Bank (WB) for completing ongoing development projects as the portfolio has almost finished before the deadline."Since Bangladesh is implementing many large projects, the government needs higher funds to implement those in time," said Mr Kamal.He was talking to...

Rescheduling not for all loan defaulters

The rescheduling facilities should not be given on a wholesale scale to all loan defaulters, a parliamentary committee has recommended. Rather, such facilities should be given over a certain period of time to those who became defaulters for various valid reasons, it said at a meeting on Monday. The committee...

News Watch- (16-04-2019)

‘Hasina among five most austere world leaders’Nigeria's prestigious newspaper The Daily Leadership has termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina one of the most austere leaders of the world, said Bangladesh High Commission in Nigeria. "Nigeria's most influential newspaper The Daily Leadership carried a feature story today (Sunday) in its "Unreported" Section...