Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) Tuesday sought information on bank accounts of 86 individuals including ex-health minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, AL presidium member Begum Sajeda Chowdhury, ex-state minister for expatriates' welfare Kamrul Islam and their family members.The...
Holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest fiesta of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on December 21, as the moon of Arabic month Zilhajj was sighted in the sky of Bangladesh Tuesday. The decision was taken Tuesday evening at...
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) has issued posting orders transferring 12 of its deputy directors and 26 assistant directors to place them under its new organogram from their current positions. Two circulars, signed by ACC Director General (administration and establishment) Col...
The National Board Revenue (NBR) Tuesday issued a publication compiling all the updated SROs, up to June 30, 2007, of Value Added Tax (VAT) Act-1991 and the Income Tax Act-1991. As a part of simplification of tax related matters and...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government will sit with the representatives of the donor community today (Wednesday) in the city and make requests for necessary funds for the post-cyclone rehabilitation works and also for promoting sustainable development of the cyclone-affected people.High officials...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) Tuesday issued a Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) withdrawing the mandatory pre-shipment inspection (PSI) required for limestone import.The mandatory PSI requirement was earlier incorporated in the national budget for the current financial year (2007-08)...
FE ReportStock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) closed mixed Tuesday amid the persistent thin turnover.The total turnover came down below the Tk 1.00 billion (100 crore)-mark again after December 5 when the turnover declined to Tk 980 million...
FE Report Bangladesh will need to make advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) to hasten development of its potential sectors, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs). "We need to think about how to create opportunities and build our capacity...
FE Report Murshid Kuli Khan, the newly appointed Deputy Governor of the central bank, has been made chairman of the Bangladesh Bank Standing Committee, official sources said. The committee has been formed to recommend removal of directors, chairmen, managing directors...
Sangbadik-Sramik-Karmachary Oikya Parishad (SSKOP) has called for four-hour work abstention today (Wednesday) protesting the 6th Wage Board award that curtailed existing facilities, reports UNB.It has asked the newsmen, workers and employees of all newspapers and news agencies to assemble in...
The CMM court Tuesday indicted 4 teachers and 19 students of Dhaka University on charge of provoking and creating August 20-22 unrest in the campus violating the emergency rules, reports UNB.Prof Harun-or-Rashid, Prof Anwar Hossain, Prof Sadrul Amin and Prof...
THE coal policy review committee formed in the middle part of this year in the wake of public commotion at Phulbari has finalised its recommendations on a number of contentious issues, including coal export, foreign investors' involvement and mining method....
MA TaslimAN idea that has been floating around in public discourse for some time is that an appreciation of the domestic currency could reduce inflation. This suggestion seems to have attracted the imagination of the policymakers who are at their...
Gerard LyonsA seismic shift may soon be under way in foreign exchange policy in the Middle East. Immediate attention is on the Gulf countries, led by Saudi Arabia, with a peg to the dollar. Policymakers are now debating whether they...
Khawaja MainuddinMANY insurance companies are operating in Bangladesh. But the overall insurance business has not yet expanded much. The existing companies need to operate efficiently and ethically to create confidence on insurance business. They need to take effective steps to...
THERE is hardly the need to mention that the decision to impose a 10 per cent tax on government-operated savings certificate schemes was a harsh one. The millions of small savers were affected this or that way by it. The...
A good number of public university teachers either have been staying abroad without authorisation or are found to be too dedicated to their assignments at private universities and various consultancies at the cost of their regular jobs. The picture is...
Joshua PartlowThe commander of the Kazakh soldiers in Iraq, all 29 of them, keeps a stack of English-language instruction books on his desk inside Forward Operating Base Delta. He already speaks Russian, Turkish and Kazakh, and after English, he plans...
Andy MukherjeeThe 4.0 million motorcycles on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City offer a remarkable -- if somewhat noisy -- testimony to the prosperity that beckons Vietnam. A $900 Honda may not be everyone's idea of affluence. However, it...
Michael R. SesitJust when bellyaching about the weak dollar is reaching a crescendo, the U.S. currency is showing signs of redemption. To be sure, the dollar isn't about to perform as if it suddenly received a dose of Viagra, and...
Margaret CarlsonIf Mary Ann told you to go jump in the lake, would you do it? That's the question my mother often asked when I cited a child more popular than I was to garner her support for a dubious...
SAVAR, Dec 10 (UNB): Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed urged the youths of SAARC countries today to actively participate in nation-building and regional development activities."On our part we remain committed to building partnership with you in activities relevant to...
Chief Justice Mohammad Ruhul Amin called on President Prof Dr Iajuddin Ahmed at Ban-gabhaban Monday, reports UNB. During the meeting, the Chief Justice informed the President of various activities of the judiciary, particularly after its separation from the executive.The President...
The remains of liberation war hero Hamidur Rahman will be flown in Dhaka by helicopter today (Tuesday) afternoon for a ceremonial burial, after an overnight stay at Comilla Cantonment. The remains of liberation war hero Hamidur Rahman reached Comilla town...
BANDARBAN, Dec 10 (UNB): Work on preparing voters' list and national identity (ID) card began in Thansi Upazila here Sunday.Thirty-six supervisors, four assistant registration officers and 75 data collectors started visiting door-to-door to collect data about the voters.Taking photographs of...
BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters): The United States should resolve trade rows with China through dialogue on an equal footing and should not politicise them, a senior commerce ministry official said in remarks published today. The warning by Chen Deming came...
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 10 (AFP): Six South American presidents yesterday launched the Bank of the South, the region's answer to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as a source for development funds. Presidents Nestor Kirchner, of Argentina, Luiz...
BASEL, Switzerland, Dec 10 (AFP): Turbulence in global financial markets caused a sharp drop in the number of international debt securities issued in the third quarter, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said. Bonds and notes worth 396 billion dollars...
LONDON, Dec 10 (AFP): Disappointment and anger from African leaders over trade deals with the European Union should serve as a "wake-up call" for the bloc's leaders, Oxfam said yesterday. European leaders admitted earlier that negotiations over so-called Economic Partership...
LONDON, Dec 10 (Xinhua): "It's so cute, could you please buy me that monkey hat?" At the Christmas market at the foot of Edinburgh Monument in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, two little sisters were attracted by the colourful...
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