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CPA warns of quadrupling storage rent

The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has warned of imposing a four-time high rent for containers stored in the port yards and the Kamalapur inland container depot (ICD), effective from March 10, amid a huge stockpile of boxes in the two establishments.It has found that some importers have been storing containers...

UN in contact with all parties to resolve Rohingya crisis

The UN Special Envoy on Myanmar, Ms Julie Bishop, on Sunday said she is in talks with all the stakeholders in a bid to resolve the Rohingya issue.She said this in response to a question whether the UN is in contact with the Arakan Army, an insurgent group of Myanmar...

Draft lacks financing roadmap, incentive to ordinary citizens

The draft renewable energy policy 2025 lacks decarbonisation and financing roadmaps to boost the country's renewable energy (RE) sector.It also lacks green taxonomy and support to ordinary citizens or individuals to go green.Energy experts and environmentalists made the observations at a press conference in a city hotel on Sunday, organised...

Court orders freeze on S Alam's Tk 8,133cr bank deposits

A court on Sunday ordered freezing Tk 8,133cr bank deposits belonging to businessman S Alam and his family.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order in response to a plea filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Tahasinul Munabil Huq.The investigation officer in the application mentioned that...

Kohli hits ton as India beat Pakistan

DUBAI, Feb 23 (AFP): Virat Kohli hit an unbeaten 100 as India beat Pakistan by six wickets in the ICC Champions Trophy on Sunday to push the title holders to the brink of elimination.India comfortably reached their target of 242 with 45 balls to spare and moved closer to the...

Tax return filing soars with locally developed system

A locally developed tax-return system enabled the National Board of Revenue (NBR in Bangladesh to achieve a remarkable success as the online system witnessed a nearly 300-percent increase in income-tax-return submissions for the 2024-25 fiscal year.Developed by local private information technology company Synesis IT, the e-return system saw over 1.44...