National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to search for taxpayers at every house in city's posh areas this month as part of its initiative to bring 3.2 lakh new eligible people under tax net in the ongoing fiscal. "The...
A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held tomorrow in the Baitul Mokarram conference room of Islamic Foundation at 7.0 pm to review reports on moon sighting for the holy month of Jilhaj, 1436 Hijri to fix...
Actor Shahid Kapoor's spokesperson has refuted reports that his wife Mira Rajput is going to do a cameo in Bollywood film AK vs SK. Rumour mills have been abuzz with news that the bride of the Haider actor will make...
Indian police are searching for the owner of a shop which they say had illegally stored explosives that triggered a blast, killing 90 people. Most of those who died were at a neighbouring restaurant in Petlawad in the state of...
Growth in China's investment and factory output in August has come in below forecasts, in a further indication that the world's second-largest economy is losing steam. Factory output grew by 6.1% from the year before - below forecasts of 6.4%....
Bangladesh Cricket Board has slapped cricket team player Shahadat Hossain with a temporary ban. The pacer will have to stay off all cricket activities until the charges filed against him under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act is settled....
Supreme Court justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury has reportedly sent a letter to the President of Bangladesh seeking impeachment of Chief Justice (CJ) Surendra Kumar Sinha, alleging he had violated the Constitution and his oath. Bringing allegations of 'gross misconduct' and...
Hundreds of school and college going bicyclist girls have set up a glaring example in rural areas eradicating gender disparity to establish equal women rights in Panchagarh district. The confident girls, mostly from the low-income group rural farmers’ families, go...
North South University authorities have decided to suspend classes from Monday while Independent University of Bangladesh is going on early Eid vacation amid students demonstrations. Amid the countrywide students agitations against the 7.5 per cent VAT on their tuition fees,...
The president’s office has denied receiving any letter from Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury seeking the impeachment of Chief Justice SK Sinha. Several private television channels ran scrolls and reports on Sunday afternoon on the purported letter. The reports said Appellate...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has hinted that the government may back down on VAT, saying it was ‘not rigid’ about the decision as protests by students of private universities continue. “We have not taken a rigid position on complications that...
Students of the private universities and private medical and dental colleges who are staging streets demonstrations across Bangladesh demanding withdrawal of value added tax (VAT) on their tuition fees, sought the intervention of the Prime Minister to resolve issue. Speaking...
Germany is to introduce temporary controls on its border with Austria to cope with the influx of migrants, the interior minister has said. Thomas de Maiziere said refugees could "not choose" their host countries and called on other EU states...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh has launched an online platform to incorporate contributions from Bangladeshi citizens in shaping its ensuing country programme document for the next five years. Comments and opinions can be posted both in English and...
Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Abdullah HM Al-Mutairi met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night. The meeting that lasted for nearly a40 minutes from 8:30pm was held at the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office. BNP Chairperson’s advisers Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin, Sabihuddin...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Indian Mining Associates Private Limited, a consultant for Petrobangla, has started investigation work for assessing possibility of coal-bed methane (CBM) extraction at the Jamalganj Coal field in northern Bangladesh. In June 2015, Petrobangla invited Expression of Interest (EOI) for consultancy...
Md. Abdur Rouf | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
VAT on private university education has attracting huge public attenion. In an article published in the Financial Express on June 28, 2015, this writer explained the rationale behind VAT on private university education. In our development discourse, we frequently refer...
The government has again asked the commuters in Dhaka and Chittagong cities to pay more for using compressed natural gas (CNG)-run buses and auto-rickshaws from the first day of the next month. The Minister for Road Transport and Bridges last...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
As the inefficiency of project directors is blamed for inordinate delay in implementation of development projects, the government has now decided to select them through interview for ensuring the appointment of qualified officials to the posts to expedite execution of...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Like in the recent past, dilapidated roads this year threaten to spoil the Eid travel home once again. Excessive monsoon rain in the current year has exacted a heavy toll on the country's long-distance roads. Those include national, regional and...
Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world'. Our government also recognises the value of education and is providing different types of incentives e.g. stipend, free books and study materials for...
Stray dogs have lately become a great nuisance for the Dhaka city dwellers. The two city corporation authorities appear to have turned quite oblivious of the menace. The scenario was quite different in the past. The then Dhaka Municipality used...
High interest rate is hurting our industrial sector and other economic activities. When we keep our money as FDR in a Bank, we get 9 to 10 per cent as interest. But when we borrow from commercial banks, we have...
writes Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Having seen exodus of refugees from civil war-torn Syria, a number of well-known personalities including the Republican lawmakers, are blaming President Barack Obama for retreating from his commitment to hit President Bashar Al-Assad regime when he used chemical weapons against...
Dilip Barua | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh and China have a rich heritage of cultural interactions and trade, which developed on the south-west silk route, the ancient tea route and the maritime silk route. After the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 12 (BSS): Time has come for wide-ranging and sustainable expansion and promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) based technologies in the drought-prone Barind tract to protect its soil health from further degradation, agricultural scientists and researchers in a discussion...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
GAIBANDHA, Sept 12: People of Gaibandha want immediate implementation of tunnel construction on Balashighat-Bahadurabadghat route below the Brahmaputra river to speed up communication system between Dhaka and norther region. According to sources the people of Gaibandha have been demonstrating for...
RANGPUR, Sept 12 (BSS): Director General of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Mohammad Hamidur Rahman has urged agriculturists to familiarise themselves with techniques to cope with natural disasters to protect yields considering natural calamities as regular phenomenon. "We have to...
GAIBANDHA, Sept 12 (BSS): Gaibandha Sadar Hospital received cholera saline, pure drinking water and Dettol soap for the treatment purpose of diarrhoea patients from different organisations in last two days. Over 220 diarrhoea patients of Gaibandha Municipality and its surrounding...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-13 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Sept 12: Dhenki, once a widely used indigenous wooden tool used to thrash paddy is almost disappearing from Rajshahi and from the country as well. This traditional tool is only seen in the households of few villagers now-a-days. Though...
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