SE Asian countries urged to save boat people
UN, US warn deadly pattern of migration to continue unless Myanmar ends discrimination.
Muhith hints at tax increase on RMG exports
Finance minister MA Muhith on Friday hinted at increasing tax on readymade garments exports arguing that the industry had became matured with various government supports.
Fishermen rescue 797 from sinking boat off Aceh
Hundreds of Bangladeshi, Rohingya migrants feared stranded at sea
Thai navy tows migrant boat back out to sea
Obama renews authority for US sanctions on Myanmar
NEC clears biggest ever ADP
The National Economic Council on Thursday approved the biggest ever Tk 97,000 crore Annual Development Programme for the next fiscal year.
Govt’s 6.51pc GDP growth calculation raises eyebrows
The country’s economy has posted a growth of gross domestic product (GDP) by 6.51 per cent in the current fiscal year (2014-15) despite political unrest for three months of the second half of the fiscal year, according to a provisional estimate of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
Interpol alert for Salah Uddin Ahmed.
Interpol’s Dhaka unit has sent a red notice to India, requesting it to arrest the man who claims to be BNP leader Salah Uddin Ahmed, reports Indian daily The Telegraph.Ahmed, 54, who identified himself as a Bangladeshi national,
Businesses seek transit fee imposition on India vessels.
Business leaders and experts on Wednesday suggested imposition of transit fees and service charges on the Indian vessels plying through Bangladesh and introduction of multimodal transport facility under the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade between the two countries
Khaleda calls on govt to release BNP men.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Wednesday demanded the release of leaders and activists of the opposition through immediate withdrawal of ‘politically-vindictive false cases’ and expedite the release of ailing senior leaders
Housewife, in-law murdered inside city apartment,
A housewife and her husband’s uncle were hacked to death by unidentified miscreants inside their apartment in the capital’s Pallabi area Wednesday afternoon.The victims were Sweety Khatun, 27, and her in-law Aminul Islam, aged around 50.
