After BL, GP offers voluntary retirement to employees
Country’s leading mobile phone company Grameenphone has offered voluntary retirement scheme to its employees who have served more than five years in the company.
Law sought to end corporal punishment of children
Bangladesh needed to enact a comprehensive law for total prohibition of corporal punishment inflicted on children by all including family members, experts said on Tuesday.
Rising pvt sector credit growth hits 15.59pc in April
The country’s private sector credit growth continued to maintain an upward trend in April, eighth month in a row, as banks are now disbursing a huge amount of consumer and farm loans to sustain their profitability, said Bangladesh Bank officials.
Legal redress for VAT payers gets costlier
Aggrieved taxpayers will now have to pay four times higher in value-added tax for filing appeals against the assessment of the National Board of Revenue because of a new measure included in the proposed budget for the next fiscal year.
Warrant issued for Quasem’s execution
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday evening issued the warrant for the execution of war crimes death row inmate Mir Quasem Ali.
Post-poll violence: AL men vandalise 40 houses in Jessore, 20 wounded in Pabna
At least 40 houses owned by supporters of Awami League rebel chairman candidates in Jessore were vandalised while at least 20 people were injured as the bands of two rival member candidates locked their horns in Pabna on Monday.
Forbes ranks Hasina as world’s 36th most powerful woman
American business magazine Forbes on Monday ranked Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina as the 36th most powerful woman in the world, 23 places up from the last year.
SP’s wife killing: DB seizes motorcycle ‘used’ by killers
The Detective Branch of Chittagong Metropolitan Police on Monday seized a parked motorcycle reportedly used in the killing of superintendent of police Babul Akhter’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chittagong city on Sunday and interrogated four youths but released them.
No refund on AIT for car registration, fitness renewal
The government has scrapped refund of advance income tax paid by the private car owners on occasion of registration and renewal of fitness of their vehicles, from the next fiscal year.
Killing a part of conspiracy from home, abroad: home minister
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said the killing of Mahmuda Khanam, wife of a police officer, was a targeted killing which was a part of a conspiracy hatched at home and abroad.
