Wider NBR drive to detect tax-dodging foreigners

Smelling large information gap in the data about registered foreign workers in Bangladesh, the tax authority now takes a wider survey on 40 companies to detect undocumented ones.As per the data compiled by the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), some 5,345 foreign workers came through the authority's approval from May...

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Foreign minister bets big on BIMSTEC

The multi-sectoral sub-regional grouping needs a big push to meet its original goals of facilitating cross-border trade and connectivity, foreign affairs experts said Tuesday.The experts, however, voiced their dismay over the low-visibility of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) in the regional trade landscape....

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Economy fosters ‘job-rich growth’

An official ratings agency says the Bangladesh economy can boast of fostering a 'job-rich growth', with the jobless rate remaining static at only 4.2 per cent last fiscal. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) came up with such economic branding of the country on the basis of the latest Labour Force...

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News Watch (21-03-2018)

Maj Gen Shafeenul to head BGB Major General Md Shafeenul Islam has been made new Director-General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification to this effect on Tuesday. General Shafeenul Islam, who was serving as the Chairman of Bangladesh Tea Board, replaced Major-General Abul...

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Prayer Timings-(21-03-2018)

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