Interest rate for SMEs to be single digit: Amu
The government is taking initiatives to lower the interest rate of the small and medium enterprises loan to single digit through banks and other financial institutions under their refinancing scheme, said industries minister Amir Hossain Amu on Sunday.
12,887 students absent on 1st day of HSC exam
Forty-three examinees were expelled for copying and 12,887 remained absent on the first day of Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations that began on Sunday, according to education ministry control room formed to oversee the HSC exam.
TONU RAPE, MURDER : Student strike observed
Protests continued across the country while students observed strike at educational institutions on Sunday and announced that they would besiege the home ministry on Thursday for immediate arrest of rapists and killers of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu as the police were yet to arrest any suspect.
South Asian economic integration : Political inconsistence, non-tariff barriers termed key challenges
Hesitant and inconsistent political leadership and various non-tariff barriers are the key challenges to South Asian regional economic integration, opined national and international experts in a dialogue on Saturday in Dhaka.
No debate producing flawed laws: CJ
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said Saturday that bills containing lacunae were being passed by Parliament without thorough debates and scrutiny.
HSC, equivalent exams get underway
The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations started simultaneously across the country on Sunday.
SC to hear Nizami’s review petition next week
The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Sunday said that the hearing of the review petition filed by death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami will be heard next week.
BAN ON ENTRY OF RAWHIDE : Lax monitoring on first day, mobile courts from today
The government will use mobile court to implement its decision to not allow entry of rawhide to the tanneries at Hazaribagh from April 1.
3 held over gang-rape of apparel worker on running bus
An apparel worker was allegedly gang raped by driver and staff on a running bus at Madhupur in Tangail on Friday morning.
BB RESERVE THEFT : Sri Lankan says she was set up by friend
When Hagoda Gamage Shalika Perera, a small Sri Lankan businesswoman, got a deposit of $20 million in her account last month, she said the funds were expected but had no idea they were stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank in one of the largest cyber heists in history.
