Businesses want continuation of package VAT in new act
Trade leaders from various sectors on Monday demanded the National Board of Revenue should continue package value-added tax system for small and medium traders in new VAT act to be implemented from July this year.
ATM CARD FORGERY : Foreigner, 3 City Bank officials arrested
A foreigner having ‘forged’ Polish passport and German national identify card and three City Bank card division officials were arrested on Sunday night and early Monday for their alleged involvement in the recent automated teller machine card fraudulence that led to the theft of over Tk 20.59 lakh in the city.
Stay watchful against distortion of Bangla: PM
Underscoring the need for further enriching Bangla, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called for building massive awareness to avoid distortion of the mother language.
Ekushey mingled with spirit of book fair
Amar Ekushey book fair premises turned into a human sea on Sunday as people, after paying their homage to the language movement martyrs at the Central Shaheed Minar, thronged into the fair that also witnessed huge sale, one of the best so far in this year.
IS claims responsibility for monastery abbot killing: SITE
Islamist terrorist outfit Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu monastery abbot at Debiganj upazila in Panchagarh, US-based SITE Intelligence Group claimed on Sunday.
Seven people killed in random Michigan shootings
Seven people were shot and killed and several others wounded in Michigan on Saturday night in a series of apparently random public shootings, according to authorities and local media.
Nation observing Ekushey February paying tribute to language martyrs
The nation is observing Ekushey February paying tribute to the martyrs of the language movement of 1952 on Sunday renewing a pledge for the use of Bangla in all spheres of life.
2 killed ‘by nephew’ over land dispute in Manikganj
Two people were killed in an attack allegedly by their nephew at Gobindal of Singair on Sunday. Jahidul, who had an enmity with his maternal uncles over a piece of land,
Nation salutes language heroes
Streams of barefooted people from all walks of life began filing past the shaheed minars after placing flowers at the altars across the country as clock struck the zero hour past Saturday with the nation paying tributes to the martyrs of the Language Movement of 1952 in a beefed up security.
Dhaka-KL MoU ‘not affected’ by suspension of recruitment
The Malaysian government’s decision to freeze recruitment of foreign workers from all source countries, including Bangladesh, will not affect the validity of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Malaysian and Bangladesh governments, said the countries human resource minister Richard Riot.
