CCH collects Tk 628b in taxes in 10 months of FY25

CHATTOGRAM, May 19: The Chittagong Custom House (CCH) collected a total of Tk 628.18 billion in taxes in the first ten months of fiscal year (FY) 2024-25.CCH sources said a drop in imports of some goods, as well as the...

MoYS, UNFPA sign MoU

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Bangladesh will assist the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) in meaningful youth engagement and empowering young people and strengthening youth-centered policies.The MoYS and UNFPA Bangladesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this...

Civil Aviation and Tourism Advisor Sheikh Bashir Uddin handing over a crest to the captain

Civil Aviation and Tourism Advisor Sheikh Bashir Uddin handing over a crest to the captain, first officer and a cabin crew member of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight - at the Balaka Bhaban in the capital on Monday - for...

Ishraque supporters continue protest, block roads

Supporters of BNP leader Ishraque Hossain continued their sit-in in front of Nagar Bhaban in the capital for the fifth consecutive day on Monday, demanding that he be sworn in as mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).They under the...

Over 13pc bridges in country's six zones vulnerable

Over 13 per cent of the bridges in six zones across the country are in different stages of vulnerability, with over 8.0 requiring immediate maintenance.The Roads and Highways Department (RHD), in its first round of inspection of 15,437 bridges and...

Hasina, 211 others sued in N'ganj murder case

NARAYANGANJ, May 19 UNB): Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former ministers Obaidul Quader and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, former local MP Shamim Osman, former Narayanganj city mayor Dr Selina Hayat Ivy, and 207 others were sued in a case over the...

Salman, Qamrul, two others shown arrested in murder cases

A Dhaka court has showed Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq, Qamrul Islam and Dr Dipu Moni arrested in two separate cases lodged over the killings which took place during the July-August mass uprising, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Mazharul Islam...

British envoy meets Jamaat's women wing leaders

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke met leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami's women's wing and discussed the issues of mutual interest, reports UNB.They had an insightful discussion about their community engagement and the policy issues that matter most to them...

SC upholds bail of 61 pro-AL lawyers

The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the High Court (HC) order that stayed the bail of 61 pro-Awami League (AL) lawyers in a case filed over the alleged assault and attempted murder of fellow lawyers during July movement, reports UNB.It...

Actor Nusraat Faria sent to jail

A Dhaka court on Monday sent popular actor Nusraat Faria to jail in connection with an attempted murder case linked to the July-August uprising.Judge Sarah Farzana Haque of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka passed the order.The court also fixed...

Clear DU campus of vagabonds: BDSU

The Dhaka University (DU) unit of the Bangladesh Democratic Students' Union (BDSU), also known as Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad, has submitted a memorandum to the university administration calling for immediately removing the floating people and vagabonds from the campus on...

BNP will protest move to rehabilitate AL: Nazrul Islam

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan has said any move to rehabilitate Awami League (AL) will be resisted.He also demanded the election to be held in December this year."Some are spreading the falsehood that the BNP...

NCP is neither 'secularist' nor 'theocratic': Nahid

Nahid Islam, convenor of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has swept aside all ideas of the party being secularist or theocratic, saying it believes in 'religious coexistence, harmony and the practice of responsibility and compassion', reports bdnews24.com.Sharing the ideals of...

Janata Party Bangladesh

Janata Party Bangladesh organised a human-chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Monday to protest recent incidents of push-in by India. — FE Photo

Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer

NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters): Former US president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone, his office said in a statement on Sunday.Biden, 82, was diagnosed on Friday after...

Case against S Alam Group chief, others approved

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday approved a case against S Alam Group Chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam and 30 others for allegedly embezzling TK 5.53 billion in loans from First Security Islami Bank (FSIB) through a shell company using forged...

Sukuk oversubscribed 4 times in 6th auction

The Tk 20 billion Sukuk was oversubscribed more than four times to Tk 82.48 billion in its sixth auction held at the central bank on Monday, officials said.Around 35 institutions-both conventional and Shariah-compliant financial institutions and individuals took part in...

Govt to withdraw over 10,000 'political' cases of AL tenure

A case was filed against 15 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its affiliated organisations in Manikganj on November 29, 2022, on charges of sabotage and creating panic in the public mind, reports BSS.In that case, 3...

Bearing failure caused Biman plane's wheel to fall off mid-flight

A primary analysis has found that "bearing failure or malfunction" caused the detachment of one of the left wheels of the main landing gear of Biman Bangladesh Airlines' Dash-8 aircraft. However, the actual cause of the bearing failure in the...

Govt seeks to import one more LNG cargo in July

The government is expecting to import one more cargo of spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) in early July to meet the country's natural gas demand during the upcoming monsoon.State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) aims to purchase the spot...

Jul-Apr ADP execution hits record low of 41.31pc

The government agencies continued to show poor performance in projects implementation as they spent only 41.31 per cent of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) during the first 10 months of the current fiscal, officials said on Monday.The ADP implementation rate...

Economic governance weaknesses likely to affect delivery

The delivery of the FY26 national budget appears to be shaped by persistent weaknesses in economic governance, including a lack of cooperation and inclusivity, poor coordination and harmonisation, and limited transparency and accountability, said Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, convenor of the...

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Govt to hold urgent meeting today

In response to the newly-imposed restrictions on the import of some Bangladeshi products to India through different land ports, the government is set to hold a meeting today (Tuesday) to devise necessary strategies, including taking immediate steps, sources said.The next...

USD rate up slightly under mkt-based regime

The interbank exchange rate of the US dollar against Bangladeshi taka starts moving up slowly following the implementation of market-driven exchange-rate regime.Because of the rise, the reference rate published by Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country's central bank, rose to Tk...

Jul-Jan budget deficit up 73pc on slow tax receipts

Bangladesh's budget deficit surged by 73.04 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year compared to the same period in FY24, driven largely by sluggish tax collection, official data shows.According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF),...

Funds flowing in as Japan follows IMF, ADB, WB lead

Budget-bankrolling funds are flowing in as Japan now agrees to lend Bangladesh around US$350 million following the footstep of multilateral lending trios of the IMF, the ADB and the World Bank, officials said Monday.Bangladesh's largest bilateral donor, Japan, at a...

National trade, import disrupted for taxmen’s strike

A prolonged pen-down protest by revenue officials demanding the scrapping of an ordinance that bifurcated their board takes a heavy toll on total supply-chain management of imports, besides tax-collection slowdown.Meanwhile, the protesting officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...

Laundered money goes into two sovereign funds

Attached and frozen assets of the oligarchs who "plundered people's money" during the deposed regime of Sheikh Hasina will go into two separate sovereign funds the interim government has decided to form.Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur Monday disclosed...

Ballon d'Or to be awarded on September 22

PARIS, May 19 (AFP): The Ballon d'Or award ceremony will take place on September 22 this year and the number of awards for women and men will be equal for the first time, organisers said on Monday.Awards for best women's...