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Keep single instalment with minimum premium provision

Stakeholders including the rights activists suggested the government on Tuesday to keep the provision of single instalment with minimum premium in the proposed insurance products for the outbound workers to protect their interest. Their other suggestions included making contracts with well-performing and high-ranking companies as well as analysing their capacity...

Govt recasts essentials’ price monitoring teams

The government has reconstituted 14 teams that will monitor the price movements and prevent abnormal situation in the city markets, officials said.But the drives carried out by the monitoring teams earlier could not make any visible impact on the market, sources concerned said.The government intends to closely monitor the price...

Talks with pry teachers on pay scale soon: Govt

The government will sit with the assistant teachers of government primary schools soon over the demand to upgrade their pay scale, said Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman on Tuesday, reports UNB."We've sought a list of teachers' representatives to initiate the talks," he said while talking to the news...

Hope 2018

In only a couple of days, the New Year will dawn in. The countdown to herald the new cycle of the Gregorian calendar is already upbeat across the world and traditional merriment will once again captivate everyone at the time-scale transition.As it is always, the advent of the New Year...

NBR asks offices to ensure representation of tax lawyers

The government's revenue authority has instructed its tax offices to ensure representation of the tax lawyers in dealing with tax files following their allegations against involvement of supporting staff of the tax circles with the process.It has also instructed to take a cautious move for selection of tax files for...

BGMEA panels reach consensus, Shahidul tipped for top post

The two panels of the apparel makers - Sommilito Parishad and Forum - have reached a consensus on 'selection' of their office-bearers for the next term, as the schedule for electing directors of the garment makers' association is announced.As per the schedule, announced by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association...

S Arabia releases graft detainees, others to stand trial

RIYADH, Dec 26 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia has released 23 of the 200-or-so powerful individuals detained since November on corruption charges after they reached deals with the government, Okaz newspaper reported on Tuesday.The report did not name those involved in what appeared to be the first large-scale release since the royals,...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presides over the ECNEC meeting

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presides over the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting at NEC Conference Centre in the capital on Tuesday. — Focus Bangla