Asjadul Kibria | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
As the time of announcing another budget gets nearer, last-minute lobbying to avail fiscal incentives is also there. From the high level of the government, it has already been signalled that the upcoming budget would provide some handy fiscal incentives...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
There is hardly any possibility of the revival of Chini-Hindi Bhai Bhai fervour that existed in the relations between China and India in the 1950s. The war between the two countries in 1962 over uninhabited Ladakh area had spoiled the...
Crime incidents have gone up in recent weeks. Let alone petty crimes, serious ones such as murder, bloody factional clash, rape and robbery have been a cause for serious concern. The law enforcers might not be willing to accept such...
Wasi Ahmed | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
Basking in the glory of putting in place a fat annual development programme (ADP) appears to be too self-gratifying for the government these days. One tends to view it this way because implementing the development programmes under the ADP reasonably...
Nabil Azam Dewan | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
Lack of basic land, air and sea connectivity in conjunction with a plethora of governmental complications is discouraging the prospects of boosting bilateral trade between Myanmar and Bangladesh. The border trade between the two countries is still low. The transportation...
Public toilet in cities is a dire necessity. It is encouraging to note that Dhaka South City Corporation is making a move in this direction as reported in your daily on 25th May. All readers, I believe, will welcome such...
Nobel laureate economist and Abel Prizing winning Mathematician John Nash has been killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, U.S.A. on 24th May. Due to the sudden demise of this veteran economist and redoubtable mathematician,...
A sad, grim and horrible scene has been unfolding over the past few days as mass graves of migrants, including people mostly from Bangladesh and Myanmar, are being found in Malaysia and Thailand. So far 140 human remains have been...
Akhter Zamil | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
Taxation, no doubt, is a critical subject. It needs meticulous study of tax Acts, rules and other related materials to understand the intricacy of the "language/terms" used in the relevant tax Acts. Lack of adequate explanatory notes often causes serious...
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
PABNA, May 26: Acute traffic congestion is seriously affecting the daily life of the townspeople here. Unauthorised shops on footpaths, haphazard parking of motorised vehicles on roadsides and plying of a large number of unlicensed auto bikes and rickshaws create...
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
RANGPUR, May 26: The potters at different upazilas in Rangpur district are apprehensive of continuing their ancestral profession as they are facing acute capital shortage. Owing to increase in prices of wood, mud and other materials the potters now can...
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, May 26: Wig and human hair have turned out to be important export items of Uttara EPZ in Nilphamari district. Sources said, the export of the items is increasing year on year. One Chinese co. YCL Ind BD Ltd...
RANGPUR, May 26 (BSS): Speakers at an open union budget announcing ceremony have stressed on enhanced participation of the common people in formulating and implementing local budget can promote democracy at the grassroots. They were speaking at the Tk 22.2...
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
JESSORE, May 26: Speakers at a pre-budget workshop held at Jessore Press Club Tuesday urged the government to announce a poor-friendly budget. Practical Action, Bangladesh, in association with Jessore Municipality and Dhara organised the workshop on eve of announcement of...
RANGPUR, May 26 (BSS): Speakers at an advocacy meeting said, there is no alternative to creating awareness in preventing further spread of HIV/AIDS through disseminating education, knowledge and social values among vulnerable group people. Rangpur Drop-in-Centre (DIC)-2 of Help &...
RU Correspondent | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, May 26: Different government and socio-cultural organisation of Rajshahi observed the 116th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Monday. To mark the day, the organisations chalked out day-long programmes including discussion meetings, cultural events, recitation of...
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, May 26: Procurement wheat of this season is going on in Nilphamari district and it would continue up to the 31st of this month. District Controller of Food office sources said the procurement target of this agro-product in this...
RANGPUR, May 26 (BSS): Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) and valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has sought cooperation of all in conducting administrative, service delivery and development activities smoothly. He said this while presiding over a day-long...
Jute farming target fixed in Gopalganj Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Gopalganj has taken up the programme of jute cultivation in 24571 hectares of land with a production target fixed at 3,19,423 bales in five upazilas of Gopalganj district during...
BARGUNA, May 26 (BSS): At least 15 persons were injured and 150 shops gutted in a fire at Barguna Super Market last night. The fire broke out at 10pm from an electric short circuit at a shop of the market...
All preparations have been completed to host the first-ever Asian Tour event in Bangladesh, the 300,000 US Dollars "Basundhara Bangladesh Open 2015" Golf tournament, beginning today (Wednesday) at the Kurmitola Golf Course in the capital, reports UNB. Kurmitola Golf Club...
Title contender and also the league leader Prime Bank South Zone led by 369 runs against second slot holder in the points table Islami Bank East Zone on the third day in their four-day final round of the Bangladesh Cricket...
Turkmenistan and Maldives reached semifinals from Pool A and B respectively eliminating their respective rivals in the DBBL Asian Senior Men's Central Zone Volleyball Championship held Tuesday at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium in the city, reports BSS. In the...
The Meizan Fortified Palm Olein Inter-District and National Kabaddi Championship, organised by the Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation, will begin in the capital Saturday (May 30), reports UNB. A total of 38 teams, including 31 districts and seven services teams, will compete...
RANGPUR, May 26 (BSS): The farmers of Rangpur division are transplanting the off-season indigenous parija rice seedling, as they got benefits in recent years. Like the previous years, RDRS Bangladesh has taken an extensive programme for cultivating the eco-friendly indigenous...
RAJSHAHI, May 26 (BSS): After the Brridhan-62, there has been a bright prospect of growing Brridhan-64 in the region including its vast barind tract in the years ahead. The newly-innovated paddy variety may open up a door of enormous prospects...
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