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.
Shut down offshore detention camps, Nauru and Manus staff urge Australia
More than a hundred former and current staff members at Australia's offshore detention camps have called for all refugees to be moved immediately, saying children's lives are being "destroyed."
Russia launches Syria airstrikes from Iranian base
Russians warplanes have conducted missions over Syria from an airbase in Iran -- the first time a major power has done so since the Islamic Revolution there in 1979.
Escaped Chibok girl: I miss my Boko Haram husband
Escaped Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and is still thinking about him three months after escaping the militants' camp.
Official: Son of 'El Chapo' has been kidnapped
Shortly before 1 a.m. on Monday, seven armed men stormed into a trendy restaurant on the main drag of Mexican beach resort Puerto Vallarta.
Khaleda shows no magnanimity, says Hasina
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia
