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BoI offers more services online for investors

FE Report | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

The Board of Investment (BOI) introduced on Sunday full automation of the Visa Support Services, Work Permit and Setting up of liaison offices aiming to help investors in getting more quality, faster and coordinated services. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu...

NBR urges BTRC to pay income tax

Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

The revenue board has urged the telecom regulatory authority to pay income tax including advance tax to the public exchequer as per Income Tax Ordinance-1984. The board made the request following approval of Finance Minister (FM) AMA Muhith to collect...

Trade bodies seek HC curbs on \\\'hartal\\\', \\\'blockade\\\'

2015-03-02 00:00:00

Top level business bodies including FBCCI have moved Sunday the High Court (HC) over blockades and shutdowns, report agencies. Interrupting the counsel for business bodies over a writ petition, the HC questioned its admissibility during hearing as no association has...

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Is Mamata\\\'s assurance enough?

Muhammad Zamir | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

Mercurial Chief Minister of Paschimbanga (West Bengal) Mamata Banerjee has left Dhaka after a whirlwind visit where each working hour was taken up with meetings and a carefully planned charm offensive. Mamata Banerjee first visited Bangladesh seventeen years ago as...

US-Israel relations in trouble

Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is scheduled to address a joint session of the US Congress on March 03 at the invitation of Speaker of the House John Boehner, has made Israeli relations with the Obama administration cool as...

Investment bonds for wage-earners abroad

2015-03-02 00:00:00

A number of US-dollar denominated government savings tools have so far failed to generate any notable enthusiasm among the prospective savers. In fact, over 95 per cent of overseas workers are not educated enough to go through a cumbersome process...

The state of minnows at grassroots

Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of planning the other day recommended for strengthening of the local government (LG) institutions during the upcoming seventh five-year plan period to, what it said, lessen the usual pressure on the central government....

Ill-used ingenuity vs creativity

Neil Ray | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

Among an array of footpath displays, bed sheets are no exception. But appearance can be deceptive. Usually a vendor displaying his wares is hardly suspect. But stay cautioned, the entire exercise of selling and buying can simply be playacting. Both...

Summer and load-shedding

2015-03-02 00:00:00

With summer approaching closer, we are already experiencing some load-shedding every day. Understandably, the power outage will further deteriorate in high summer. As of now, our power generation capacity is not adequate to meet the increased demand. Apart from failure...

Printed circuits for aircraft engines

2015-03-02 00:00:00

Fantastic news came from AFP and was published in a local daily. It is an awesome piece of news for the future safety of aircraft jet engines. The news reveals that conventional electric cables will be replaced by printed wiring...

Banglamoti paddy cultivation

2015-03-02 00:00:00

There was a news item in the media in 2008 which stated that BRRI had developed a variety of rice called Banglamoti --one that is similar to Bashmoti rice of Pakistan and India -- but its yield per hector is...

Democratic challenge in Bangladesh

M.G. Quibria | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

Bangladesh is currently in the midst of a deadly political crisis. Since the onset of the crisis in January, the economy has been in dire straits. According to newspaper reports, more than one hundred lives (and counting) have been lost,...

Detailed DSE Trading

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Shipping

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Theatre personalities\\\' call to resist violence thru cultural activities

2015-03-02 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Mar 1 (BSS): Theatre personalities at a discussion here last night called upon the common people as well as dramatists for resisting the current violence in the name of political movement through spreading cultural activities. They stressed on flourishing...

Role of Light House consortium in preventing HIV/AIDS lauded

2015-03-02 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Mar 1 (BSS): Speakers at a project facilitation meeting here have lauded the role of Light House Consortium, a non-government organisation, in creating awareness among the vulnerable group of people to prevent formidable threat of HIV/AIDS. They were addressing...

Avijit Roy\\\'s killing protested at RU

RU Correspondent | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Mar 1:  Leaders and activists of Progressive Students Alliance (PTA), a union of left-leaning student organisation, Rajshahi University (RU) unit, today formed a human chain in front of the central library in protest of the savage killing of...

RU railway station beset with numerous problems

RU Correspondent | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Mar 1: Rajshahi University (RU) railway station is beset with numerous problems causing untold sufferings for the students, teachers and the staff. The station was founded in 1966 as the outcome of efforts of the then Rajshahi University...

Women urged to go for chemical-free gardening

2015-03-02 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Mar 1 (BSS): Experts at a training course today asked the female farmers for expanded homestead gardening in rural areas adopting the modern agriculture technologies to increase production of chemical-free hygienic vegetables. World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) under its Fulbari...

Fair justice to mitigate people’s sufferings underscored

2015-03-02 00:00:00

GAIBANDHA, Mar 1 (BSS): Speakers at a function here underscored the need for mitigating the sufferings of the people in the cases of getting fair justice from the concerned. "Emphasis should be given to perform the justice related activities properly...

Sukanta Mela begins at Gopalganj

Our Correspondent | 2015-03-02 00:00:00

GOPALGANJ, Mar 1: A three-day Kabi Sukanta Mela-2015, began at the ancestral home of the poet at Unasia village under Kotalipara upazila in Gopalganj district Sunday on the occasion of 90th birth anniversary of the poet. Upazila Administration, Kotalipara, Gopalganj...

News in Brief

2015-03-02 00:00:00

BGB seizes gold bars in Benapole Border Guard Bangladesh men on Saturday noon seized a total of 715 grams of gold bars and arrested a woman raiding an area at Ghiba frontier under Benapole port police station wile the Border...