DA for govt employees next month
Government employees will be given a dearness allowance before a pay commission is implemented, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday. “A gazette notification on the [formation of the] pay...
View ArticleGovt to appeal if justice not ensured
Bangladesh will appeal if it does not get justice when the process of Felani murder trial at Indian court ends. “We have sought details of the trial process. We will definitely appeal if we do not get...
View ArticleTax regulator flouts its own rules
The National Board of Revenue has violated its own rules by making public information relating to income tax of Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus. On Monday, the tax authorities released a report to...
View ArticleNBR hits out at 7 ‘Grameen’ firms
The National Board of Revenue yesterday again claimed that seven companies bearing Grameen names have availed themselves of income tax exemption illegally. At a press briefing in his office in Dhaka,...
View ArticleSpeaker hopes crisis to be over soon
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has said the nation hopes that the treasury and the opposition benches will resolve any disagreement between them through discussions and debate in the last session of...
View ArticleSufferings mount at Mawa, Kawrakandi
Strong currents in the Padma disrupted ferry services at Mawa and Kawrakandi ghats yesterday putting passengers in trouble as hundreds of vehicles were stranded on both sides of the river. Only three...
View ArticleJoy set to join campaign
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, yesterday said he would not contest the next parliamentary election but would help the Awami League in electioneering to ensure the party’s...
View ArticleField test delayed
Regulators’ foot-dragging has failed scientists in field-testing Vitamin A-enriched rice, better known as “Golden Rice”. A year passed by since the researchers sought approval for a “confined field...
View ArticlePromotion spree in civil admin
Excessive promotions and upgradation of the posts of cadre officials have left the civil administration in an awful state. The number of officials here is three to four times greater than the posts...
View ArticleEurozone finance ministers meet on crisis
Eurozone finance ministers met yesterday, exuding more confidence as the bloc returns to growth, but still mindful that bailed-out member states must meet their targets amid speculation some need more...
View ArticleSteam seen at Fukushima as experts dismiss water fears
Vapour has begun rising again from a reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, more than two-and-a-half years after its core melted down, the site’s Japanese operator said Friday. Tokyo Electric...
View ArticleAbducted S Korean escapes from North after 41 years
A South Korean man has escaped four decades after he was kidnapped by North Korea while fishing near the disputed Yellow Sea border, officials said yesterday. The 68-year-old, identified as Jeon...
View ArticleRampant abuses in Somali capital evictions: Amnesty
The forced eviction of thousands of Somalia’s poorest from makeshift camps amid rebuilding efforts in the war-ravaged capital Mogadishu has led to “large scale” rights abuses, Amnesty International...
View ArticleUS spy chief gives credit to Snowden
Leaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden triggered a much needed debate about surveillance in America, even if they jeopardized national security, the country’s spy chief admitted...
View ArticleVoyager’s new journey
Nasa’s Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first man-made object to leave the solar system, scientists confirm. Measurements recorded by the probe suggest that it has left the Sun’s sphere of influence...
View ArticleBSF to bring Natore girl jailed in India
Languishing in a prison for almost four years for trespassing on India, 12-year-old Afroza Khatun is set to land in Bangladesh today with a team of Indian Border Security Force (BSF). The BSF team will...
View ArticleUN chief confirms Syria gas attack
UN experts will give “overwhelming” confirmation that chemical weapons were used in Syria, UN leader Ban Ki-moon predicted yesterday, as Washington and Moscow held crucial talks on dismantling Syria’s...
View ArticleBJP names Modi as PM candidate
India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has named a controversial leader Narendra Modi to be the party’s prime minister candidate if it wins national elections due early next year. The...
View ArticleAL hatching plot to hold 1-party polls
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said people would not choose the Awami League’s “regime of misrule” once again because the party had “made them suffer a lot”. “The...
View Article4 convicts to die
An Indian fast-track court yesterday handed down death sentence to four men convicted of gang raping and brutally murdering an Indian student here in December last year. “Death to all”, pronounced...
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