4 oil cos get ultimatum to cough up Tk 2,689cr VAT arrears
The National Board of Revenue has issued a final demand notice to four oil companies of the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation for paying up the arrears of Tk 2,689 crore in value-added tax within one week, officials said.
Inflation eases in April on rice price decline
The point-to-point inflation inched down to 5.61 per cent in April from 5.65 per cent in March thanks to a decline in both food and non-food inflation, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
Kuwaiti PM accorded a rousing reception
A red carpet was rolled out as Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah arrived here on Tuesday on a three-day official visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina.
S’pore detains 8 Bangladeshis
Singapore authorities have arrested eight Bangladeshi workers on militancy charge in April, said the Singapore home ministry on its website.
Trump zeroes in on Indiana
Donald Trump is predicting he can knock rival Ted Cruz out of the Republican presidential race by winning Tuesday's primary here, and recent polling shows he's in good shape.
Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers
Puerto Ricans are leaving the island for the mainland United States at a historic rate.
Kenneth Bae: '735 days in North Korea was long enough'
Kenneth Bae spent almost two years performing grueling work for the North Korean regime -- and had another decade of hard labor ahead of him.
Kuwait PM due today
The prime minister of the state of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah arrives here today on a three-day official visit at the invitation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Chinese apparel price on rise: B’desh to benefit less than SE Asia due to poor competitiveness: WB
As Bangladesh lags behind Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia in competitiveness, a rise in Chinese apparel prices would offer more benefits to the Southeast Asian countries, according to a World Bank report released on Monday.
May Day observed
Workers demanded hike in wages and safe working conditions as well as formation of trade union at all mills and factories, as they celebrated International Labour Day, widely known as the ‘May Day,’ on Sunday.
