Legal redress for VAT payers gets costlier
Aggrieved taxpayers will now have to pay four times higher in value-added tax for filing appeals against the assessment of the National Board of Revenue because of a new measure included in the proposed budget for the next fiscal year.
Warrant issued for Quasem’s execution
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday evening issued the warrant for the execution of war crimes death row inmate Mir Quasem Ali.
Post-poll violence: AL men vandalise 40 houses in Jessore, 20 wounded in Pabna
At least 40 houses owned by supporters of Awami League rebel chairman candidates in Jessore were vandalised while at least 20 people were injured as the bands of two rival member candidates locked their horns in Pabna on Monday.
Forbes ranks Hasina as world’s 36th most powerful woman
American business magazine Forbes on Monday ranked Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina as the 36th most powerful woman in the world, 23 places up from the last year.
SP’s wife killing: DB seizes motorcycle ‘used’ by killers
The Detective Branch of Chittagong Metropolitan Police on Monday seized a parked motorcycle reportedly used in the killing of superintendent of police Babul Akhter’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chittagong city on Sunday and interrogated four youths but released them.
No refund on AIT for car registration, fitness renewal
The government has scrapped refund of advance income tax paid by the private car owners on occasion of registration and renewal of fitness of their vehicles, from the next fiscal year.
Killing a part of conspiracy from home, abroad: home minister
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said the killing of Mahmuda Khanam, wife of a police officer, was a targeted killing which was a part of a conspiracy hatched at home and abroad.
Police official’s wife shot dead
Three suspected militants riding a motorbike stabbed and shot dead the wife of an acclaimed counter-terrorism police official, Babul Akhter, while his son escaped injury, near their rented house in the port city on Sunday morning.
Saudi king for taking relations with Bangladesh to new height
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Sunday expressed intent to take the kingdom’s relations with Bangladesh to a new height.
PM urges Saudi entrepreneurs to be Bangladesh’s investment partners
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday urged Saudi entrepreneurs to be ‘partners’ of Bangladesh in investment, trade, profit sharing and prosperity to bring a change in the life of millions of people.
