PM for unhindered global movement of all factors of production

Mentioning five aspects of migration governance, including securing rights of migrants in all situations irrespective of their status, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said goods, services and all factors of production needed to move unhindered in a connected world.

Members of anti-militancy committees harassing BNP activists: Nazrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Monday alleged that the ‘administrative committees’, formed by the government with ruling party men, to resist militancy are harassing opposition leaders and activists.

It’s next to impossible to make politicians, influentials obey law: OQ

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said that it was next to impossible to make politicians and influential people go by law.

BB reserve theft: PH court orders return of $15.25m to B’desh

A Philippine court on Monday ordered Philippine central bank – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas – to return to the Bangladesh Bank $15.25 million recovered so far out of $81 million stolen from the latter’s reserve account with Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February.

MP Rana shifted to Kashimpur jail

Ruling Awami League lawmaker for Tangail 3 constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana was shifted to Kashimpur jail in Gazipur on Monday.

PM reaches NY to join UN General Assembly

The prime minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in New York from Montreal, Canada to attend 71st UN General Assembly.

Eight killed in road accidents

At least eight people including three women were killed while 51 others injured in separate road accidents in Munshiganj, Bogra and Magura on Monday.

FREEDOM FIGHTER MURDER: AL MP lands in jail

Ruling Awami League lawmaker from Tangail-3 parliamentary constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana landed in jail on Sunday after he surrendered to a Tangail court in the case of the murder of freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed in 2013.

AL MP’s son arrested on extortion charge

Police on Sunday arrested the son of a ruling Awami League lawmaker in Satkhira in two extortion cases.

NBR may raise upper limit of turnover for VAT imposition

The National Board of Revenue may increase the upper limit of turnover from the existing Tk 80 lakh for imposing turnover VAT on businesses in a bid to implement smoothly the new Value-Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act-2012 from the next fiscal year.