Four gas cos stop paying VAT again
Four major state-owned gas distribution companies have again stopped paying value-added tax and supplementary duty collected by them from their consumers on the prices of gas after paying the taxes for few months in 2015 though the companies have dues of Tk 13,278 crore to the National Board of Revenue, officials said.
BB, Fed, Swift to gear up efforts to recover $81m theft fund
Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday said that New York Federal Reserve Bank, BB and SWIFT would work together to gear up efforts for recovering the US$ 81 million fund stolen from the BB’s Fed Reserve account that was laundered into the Philippines.
Arrest of Selima Rahman, 66 BNP leaders ordered
The Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court on Wednesday issued warrants for the arrest of 67 Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists, including its vice-president Selima Rahman, in a case filed under the Special Powers Act 1974.
Citycell staff form human chain for dues, compensation
Employees of Citycell Wednesday formed a human chain demanding their outstanding salaries along with compensations as the country’s first mobile phone operator faces shutdown for defaulting a huge amount of government dues.
1 dead, 100 missing as boats capsize on turbulent rivers
A woman died while around 100 fishermen went missing as a boat capsized in Noakhali, Barguna and Patuakhali due to rough weather.
Khaleda shows no magnanimity, says Hasina
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia
Kader Siddique blames Mujib’s sycophants for his killing
Krishok Sramik Janata League president Abdul Kader Siddique said on Tuesday the sycophants of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had prepared the ground for the killing the country’s founding president.
Anti-Rampal project campaigners block city road
Progressive Students Alliance, a platform of left-leaning student organisations, held demonstrations in the capital on Tuesday, protesting at the Rampal coal-fired power plant project.
Tonu rape, murder: No progress in probe yet
The police could neither make any visible progress in the investigation into the rape and murder of Comilla Victoria College girl Sohagi Jahan Tonu inside Mainamati cantonment on March 20 nor discovered the clue to the crimes in five months. Although none has yet been arrested in the case, the family members of the victim are facing trouble to go out of their house in the cantonment area as they still need permission to cross the cantonment’s boundary, alleged Tonu’s parents. ‘There is no further progress in the investigation…We are still working,’ Criminal Investigation Department special superintendent of police Md Shahriyar Rahman, also the supervising officer of the investigation, told New Age on Tuesday. He said that none was so far arrested in the case. The victim’s parents alleged that the investigators neither shared any findings nor discussed anything about the case with them. ‘We seek justice…I want to see that the killers are identified and punished,’ Tonu’s father Yaar Hossain said. Tonu’s mother Anwara Begum said in tears that the result of Tonu’s second year examination was published in the past week and she passed the examination. ‘We see no progress in the investigation…We have left the issue to almighty Allah,’ she wailed. Sources in CID said that they had so far interrogated about 100 people including five army personnel and Tonu’s parents, brothers and friends. They, however, said that they were still working to find out the killers and why and how Tonu was killed. Tonu, a second-year student of history department and a member of Comilla Victoria College Theatre, went missing on March 20 after she went out from her house at Alipur staff quarters inside the cantonment in the afternoon to give tuition at two houses in the staff quarters. Her father discovered her body in a bush near their house at about 11:30pm on the day. Following the killing, Tonu’s father lodged a case with the Comilla Kotwali police station on March 21 against unidentified people and investigation of the case was transferred to CID on March 28. As the first post mortem examination found no evidence of murder or rape, the country roared in protests and, amid the protests, a second post-mortem examination was performed on Tonu’s exhumed body at the forensic department at Comilla Medical College following a court order on March 30. The second autopsy neither determined the cause of her death nor confirmed whether she was raped but found evidence of ‘intercourse’ before the death. The report handed over to Comilla CID on June 12 by a three-member forensic team led by Comilla Medical College forensic medicine department head Kamda Prasad Shaha advised police investigators to carry out further investigation to determine the cause of the death. Kamada on Tuesday, however, declined to comment on their findings. On May 16, CID officials said that they, on court order, conducted DNA profiling for Tonu and the report confirmed that Tonu was raped before her death and three male’s DNA profile was found in the report. The investigators said that a small group of people might have killed Tonu and dumped the body in the bush near the boundary of the Comilla Cantonment between 10:10pm and 10:30pm on March 20 after she was raped in another place inside the cantonment anytime in the evening.
Illegal structures on karnaphuli banks: Remove all in 90 days: HC
The High Court on Tuesday asked the authorities to remove 2,181 illegal structures on the Karnaphuli River banks in Chittagong.
