DNCC unveils budget of Tk 2,083.35 crore

Dhaka North City Corporation on Sunday announces its Tk 2083.35 crore budget for the fiscal year 2016-17.

NBR frames draft rules on transit with provision for revising fees

The National Board of Revenue has drafted the rules on customs management of transit and trans-shipment of goods under the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade between Bangladesh and India, keeping a provision to revise transit and trans-shipment charge and other fees from time to time.

Potholed, waterlogged highways await Eid time home goers

Regular travellers said that uncomfortable journeys await Eid time home goers as the highways were full of potholes.

PM optimistic about launching electric train

Expressing her high hope of launching high-speed electric trains and underground trains in the country, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said a feasibility study is going on for underground trains.

Security beefed up at 68 jails fearing ‘sabotage’

Jail authorities have enforced a ‘security alert’ on the country’s 68 jails on warning from intelligence agencies of further criminal attacks after the murder of an alleged criminal in front of Jessore jail gate last week.

Arms in city: Now IED, radio-transceivers recovered

Dhaka Metropolitan Police said they seized on Saturday three bags stashed with five walky-talkies, two repeaters, some explosive gel and chips in the canal at Uttara from where police last week had seized a cache of arms.

‘Pay RMG workers by 20th Ramadan or face tough movement’

The leaders of labour rights bodies on Friday again asked garment owners to pay salary and festival allowances to workers by 20th Ramadan and threatened a tougher movement if the workers are not paid in time.

SP Babul Akter goes home after interrogation

Superintendent of police Babul Akter reached home after a police interrogation about the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chittagong on June 5.

Nine-day Eid vacation this year

The three-day Eid vacation is likely to be extended to nine days as the government has decided to declare July 4, the only office day before Eid, a public holiday, by an executive order for this year so that home goers could celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr comfortably.

Bangladesh to do everything to fight terrorism, militancy: PM

Reiterating her government’s firm stance against terrorism and militancy, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday categorically said that Bangladesh would do everything necessary to fight the twin social monsters.