Sonia H Moni The government has reduced the net value added tax (VAT) from 4.5 per cent to 2.0 per cent on gold, gold ornaments, silver and silver ornaments. National Board of Revenue (NBR) has issued a Statutory Regulatory Order...
M Azizur Rahman The government has initiated a new programme to explore the country's shale gas potentials to help meet the country's mounting energy demand and ensure its future energy security, a top government official has said Friday. Shale gas...
Jatiya Party (JP), a key ally of ruling grand alliance, will start a long march today (Saturday) to protest the Indian government's move to construct Tipaimukh dam on the common Barak river in northeastern Indian state of Monipur, reports UNB....
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Friday alleged that the Zia Charitable Trust Fund case was filed against Khaleda Zia at the instruction of the Prime Minister (PM) to debar her from contesting the next general elections, reports...
Ronan Farrow, Special Adviser to the US Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues and Director of the State Department's Office arrived in the city Friday afternoon on a four-day visit, reports UNB. During his visit, Farrow will meet youth...
DU Correspondent State Minister for Science and Technology Architect Yeafesh Osman said Friday that information professionals could play a significant role in the country's socio-economic development through providing right information to the common people. "Government is going to establish about...
The 46th Bishwa Ijtema organised by Tabligh-e-Jamaat will begin on the bank of Turag River at Tongi on January 13, reports BSS. The first phase of the Ijtema will be held on January 13-15 and the second on January 20-22....
AGARTALA, Dec 9 (bdnews24.com): Four days of talks between Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF), intended to strengthen the ties further between the border guards, are set to start in northeast Meghalaya state capital Shillong from Monday...
Bangladesh Human Rights' Commission (BHRC) has chalked out elaborate programmes in all divisional cities, metropolitan areas, districts and at thana levels in observance of the International Human Rights Day today (Saturday), reports UNB. The programmes include rally, human chain, seminar,...
FE Report Nearly 75 per cent of the top management jobs and two-thirds of the reporting jobs are occupied by men in news media, said a global study report on media. The report titled 'Global Report on the Status of...
A passenger bus was gutted near Mati Kata check post of Dhaka Cantonment area Thursday night, reports BSS. The fire originated from a burning mosquito coil at about 2.50 am when bus conductor and helper were sleeping inside the bus....
FE Report Renowned business woman Mrs. Monowara Hakim Ali made a donation for US$ 36,000 (BDT 27,30,000) as donation to the Asian University for Women (AUW) Chancellor Mrs. Cherie Blair at AUW on Thursday evening to construct a seminar room...
A new programme has been taken up to secure food and livelihoods to thousands of ultra poor women and marginal farmers in three poverty stricken districts in the north, thanks to the success of four other identical projects implemented in...
A number of architects received the 5th Berger Award for Excellence in Architecture at a ceremony held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital Friday. The winners were declared from among the participants in two categories --Berger Architects Award...
The 40th death anniversary of eminent journalist Shaheed Sirajuddin Hossain, a martyr of the War of Liberation will be observed today (Saturday), reports BSS. Pakistani occupation forces and their collaborators, Razakars and Al-Badr took Sirajuddin Hoassain from his residence at...
Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Banks have traditionally played a key role in the financial system by acting as financial intermediaries between the depositors or savers and the borrowers. As asset transformers, they accepted deposits with one set of characteristics and created...
Pilita Clark and Andrew England in Durban Countries betting the European Union will cave in and accept a weak global climate deal need to think again, the UK warned on December 7, as pressure grows on negotiators in the final...
M Jalal Hussain Bangladesh, with an area of 147,570 square km and a population of 160 million, is an emerging country in South Asia. With a growing number of better educated young people, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workforce, and a...
Rachel O'Brien of AFP from Bangkok3 Myanmar's bid to reach out to ethnic guerrillas as part of budding reforms has raised cautious hopes of an end to decades of conflict, but analysts say major challenges must be overcome to achieve...
The depreciation of the country's currency, Taka, is taking place at a pace faster than many had anticipated. It has lost its value against the US dollar by nearly 12 per cent -- 4.4 per cent in past one month...
Nerun Yakub Thinking sections across the world watch with utter dismay the continuing scramble of the Euro-American consortium to reserve African resources for themselves, now that the spectacularly eccentric, authoritarian nationalist, Muammer Qaddafi of Libya, has been done in ---...
Accusing fingers have been pointed to a 15-minute disruption of play due to power failure for the defeat of the Tigers in the third and final one-day international of the just concluded cricket series between Bangladesh and Pakistan. In the...
We hail yesterday's (December 7th) High Court verdict banning advertisements of unauthorised housing projects in print and electronic media. We wish the media and Rajuk will follow the court directives in letter and spirit. It is well known how the...
Unfair means or copying in the examination is a social disease and a crime too. Only policy-making is not enough to upgrade the standard of the education. Increasing the ratio of the percentage of the successful students may be needed...
Md Atikur Rahman The environment refers to the air, water and land in which people, animals, and plants live. Human beings, animals, plants, air, water and soil are thus the main elements of environment. The natural forces such as storms,...
By the month of December in 1971, we were more than used to harbouring strangers at home. The visitors included friends that we had not met for ages; friends' friends, who had never visited us before; and young men carrying...
Filipino entrepreneur Illac Diaz is aiming to help a million poor people in a year, and with the help of some plastic bottles and a clever social media campaign may do even better. Diaz's project appears simple -- fill discarded...
Monira Munni Ship-breaking and recycling has almost doubled in the country this year (2011) compared to last year despite legal barriers the industry faced for nearly two years. Ship-breakers expressed hope that they would be able to recycle about 3.0...
FE Report Former finance advisor Dr Mirza Azizul Islam Friday expressed his surprise over abnormal rise in government's bank borrowing and slow implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) this fiscal. "Government is borrowing from banking sector but the rate...
FHM Humayan Kabir The government has to spend nearly double the fund in actual cost for installing a 240-megawatt power station due to delay in project implementation by a government power generation company, officials said Friday. Power Division officials said...
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