INCOME TAX DEDUCTION AT SOURCE : NBR to set up 5 spl zones to intensify monitoring
The National Board of Revenue is planning to set up five specialised income tax zones with a view to intensifying monitoring of tax deduction at source or TDS across the country and expediting the revenue collection from the sector.
Law and order situation good: home minister
Home affairs minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday claimed that the overall law and order situation of the country was ‘obviously good’ and Saturday’s attacks on publishers and bloggers were isolated incidents.
LOCAL BODY POLLS : EC seeks power to fix time
The Election Commission on Sunday sent a letter to the local government ministry seeking authority to fix the time for elections to local government institutions, including city corporation, upazila parishad, municipal council and union parishad.
JL, BCL clash, vandalise 100 shops in Ctg
Awami Juba League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League-backed youth and student organisations, clashed, traded gunshots and vandalised business establishments in Chittagong city on Saturday night and Sunday.
Russian plane crashes in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board
A Russian passenger plane crashed early Saturday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people aboard, officials said.
U.S. Navy finds wreckage believed to be missing cargo ship El Faro
The wreckage of a cargo ship believed to be the El Faro has been located by a U.S. Navy search team in about 15,000 feet of water, the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday night.
Netanyahu retraction: Nazis, not mufti, decided on Holocaust
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed controversial comments he made about the Holocaust, saying he never meant to claim that an Islamic leader persuaded Adolf Hitler to adopt the Final Solution to kill European Jews.
At least 4 die in Texas as storm system moves into Louisiana, Mississippi
A strong storm system that caused at least four weather-related deaths in Texas moved into Louisiana and Mississippi on Saturday.
4 dead, including suspect, in Colorado Springs shooting
Three people were killed in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Saturday morning before city police officers shot and killed a suspect, said the sheriff's office of El Paso County.
Spectre of blogger killing continues, Publisher dead, three badly wounded in 2 daring attacks
One secular blogger and publisher was hacked to death and three other bloggers injured at their workplaces in separate incidents in the capital’s Shahbagh and Lalmatia Saturday afternoon. With the latest attacks on Saturday,
