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Businesses urge improvement in law and order

Businesses at a dialogue on Tuesday stressed the need for an improved law and order situation to support their operations. They also demanded the government's prioritised measures for resolving the energy crisis to ensure manufacturers' competitiveness in the global market, warning the ongoing crisis could severely impact manufacturing. Besides, they...

Political, interim governments fundamentally different

Renowned economist Dr Rehman Sobhan Tuesday said there is a fundamental difference between political and interim governments.Dr Sobhan, also the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) chairman, said the present interim government, formed after a mass uprising, is not bound to any authority, whereas a political government remains accountable to many,...

VAT refund process for superstores simplified

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has simplified the VAT (Value added tax) refund process for the superstore businesses by waiving the requirement to furnish details on the use of raw materials.Usually, manufacturers are supposed to submit 'input-output coefficient' to the VAT officials showing how much of the imported raw...

BNP leader Noman passes away

CHATTOGRAM, Feb 25 (UNB): BNP Vice-Chairman and former minister Abdullah Al Noman passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday morning. He was 82.He breathed his last around 6 am at Square Hospitals Ltd in Dhaka, his personal assistant Nurul Azim Hiru said.Hiru said that freedom...

BB to introduce platform soon to boost automated transactions

Bangladesh Bank (BB) is actively considering introducing a platform for mobile interoperability within a short period of time to further facilitate automated transactions, Governor Dr Ahsan H. Mansur said on Tuesday."We don't have mobile interoperability and it is something that we would be working on shortly," he told an event...

Dhaka Nagar Paribahan operations resume on new route

Under the green cluster, Dhaka Nagar Paribahan resumed Tuesday its services after more than two years on a new route from Gabtoli to Narayanganj with air-conditioned buses.However, several bus services are already operating on the same route. Road Transport and Highways Division Senior Secretary Mohammad Ehsanul Hoque launched the buses...

82 police officers made OSD

Eighty-two police officers who served in elections during the Awami League government have been made Officers on Special Duty, or OSD, reports bdnews24.com.OSDs are usually political victims, having no work to do either in the policymaking or the implementation process of the government.The home ministry issued three notifications on Tuesday...

5pc contractors secure 61pc of projects: TIB

A decade of data on electronic Government Procurement, or e-GP, shows that 5 per cent of contractors dominate 61 per cent of the projects in the 10 ministries with the highest spending, according to Transparency International Bangladesh, or TIB.Meanwhile, the bottom 10 per cent contractors hold less than 1.0 per...

Salehuddin slams businessmen for 'lopsided talks'

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday lambasted businessmen for "lopsided talks" saying while one group is in favour of lowering taxes the other group is opposed to it."You know the businesses very well. I know them even better. They sometimes speak one-sidedly. I have to take decisions considering multiple...

Dhaka's open water bodies receive 230 tonnes of fecal waste daily

UNICEF, WaterAid, SNV, and ITN-BUET highlighted the critical need for accelerated progress in sanitation and hygiene during the International Toilet Conference 2025 in Dhaka. According to a statement, over one-third of Bangladesh's population, more than 65 million people, still lack access to safely managed sanitation. Estimated 230 tonnes of fecal...

Pilkhana massacre took place under Hasina's leadership

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said brutal massacre of army officers in capital's Pilkhana was carried out under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina. "The massacre in Pilkhana continued for two days under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina," he told journalists after paying rich tributes to the martyrs...