Zia’s 35th death anniv today
Today is the 35th death anniversary of late president Ziaur Rahman, also the founder of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Investment in nat’l savings tools soars to Tk 26,488cr in 10 months
The net investment in the national savings certificates and bonds in the first 10 months of the current financial year 2015-16 stood at Tk 26,487.72 crore and is set to surpass the revised (upward) annual target of Tk 28,000 crore at the end of the fiscal year due to the clients’ rush for the tools.
Enhanced budget for plain land minorities demanded
Politicians, civil society members and leaders of ethnic minority groups on Sunday demanded that the government allocate enhanced budget for the country’s plain land ethnic minority peoples to improve their social status and livelihood.
3 more killed in electoral violence
Three more people were killed in electoral violence in Narayanganj and Panchagarh on Sunday and Saturday night, taking to 114 the death toll from electoral violence in the maiden partisan elections to union parishads.
President asks Bangladesh peacekeepers to work with professionalism
President Abdul Hamid has urged the Bangladesh peacekeepers in the UN peacekeeping mission to continue to work maintaining professionalism, honesty, devotion and sincerity saying that Bangladesh is always ready to establish peace in any corner of the world under the UN Security Council.
Japan with Bangladesh in its dev journey
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday assured his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina of continuing his county’s support to materialise her Vision-2021 for elevating Bangladesh to a middle-income country by 2021.
Cincinnati zoo kills gorilla to save child who slipped into enclosure
The Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed a western lowland gorilla on Saturday after a 4-year-old boy slipped into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said at a news conference.
Import growth drops to 4.40pc in July-April
Import payments registered a lower growth of 4.40 per cent in the first 10 months of the current financial year 2015-16 compared with that of a 4.49-per cent growth in the same period of the FY15 because of sluggish business situation in the country and lower commodity prices on the international market.
Combined movement stressed to save railway
Left-leaning political leaders on Saturday stressed the need for a collective movement to make the Bangladesh Railway people-friendly and functional.
Review double-taxation avoidance treaties to reap benefits
Experts at a dialogue on Saturday said the government should review the restrictive double-taxation avoidance treaties Bangladesh has signed with different countries as the country is losing its vital revenues due to the agreements which have also failed to attract the expected volume of foreign direct investment to the country.
