Mercedes Benz of Apan Jewellers owner seized

Customs intelligence and investigation directorate officials seized a luxury car of Apan Jewellers owner Dildar Ahmed from Sylhet on Tuesday afternoon.

ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOLS Govt may slap VAT on tuition fees again

The government is likely to impose value-added tax again on tuition fees of English medium school in the upcoming budget for the fiscal year 2017-2018 under the new VAT law though the issue of VAT imposition on the fees remained pending with the apex court.

SC has no effective control over subordinate judiciary: CJ

Chief Justice SK Sinha said Tuesday said that the Supreme Court has no effective control over the lower judiciary.

Only 13 govt schools set up since liberation

Successive governments established only 13 new government secondary schools and nationalised another 60 such institutions inside 46 years of the independence of the country.

RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE Rana among 10 indicted

Charges were framed against 10 accused, including Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana, on Sunday for violating building code in constructing Rana Plaza that collapsed in 2013, killing at least 1,129 people.

Hasina accorded reception in KSA

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina was accorded a warm reception as she arrived in Riyadh Saturday night on a four-day official visit to Saudi Arabia to join the Arab-Islamic-US summit at the invitation of Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

BNP protests at raid amid police bar

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said that they would banish from Bangladesh ‘nasty politics’ like ‘ransacking’ opposition party office by misusing police.

SC orders for reinstatement of 138 doctors at BSMMU

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday ordered to reinstate 138 doctors of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, whose appointments were pronounced illegal by the High Court earlier on December 14, 2010.

Police raid Khaleda’s office

Dhaka Metropolitan Police raided Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office at Gulshan in Dhaka Saturday morning in search of ‘anti-state sticker’ and filmed each room in the building.

Poor planning turns Dhaka least liveable

More than eight lakh people live only in 13 square kilometres at ward-2 (Goran) in Dhaka south city but there is no government high school, college or healthcare facilities for them..