DOT Desk The country’s apparel exporters will enjoy full waiver of Value Added Tax (VAT) on four types of services including expenditure on workers’ welfare and entertainment, laboratory test fees, IT-enabled services and rent-a-car facility, reports The Financial Express. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has offered the Value Added Tax exemption for export-oriented apparel…
DOT Desk The cabinet on Monday decided to amend the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Land Acquisition) Regulation 1958, raising compensation rate to 200-300 per cent from existing 15 per cent of the land price, reports The New Age. The land ministry placed a draft proposing amendments to the regulation in the 202nd cabinet meeting chaired by…
Zaian F Chowdhury, Communications portfolio lead for learning and innovation of BRAC Communications & Chandra Chakma, Deputy manager of communications of BRAC’s education programme/ BRAC Belal reads the loudest in his class. He is only 12, but has already competed in sports on a national level. He is also one of 1.5 billion people across…
Mervyn King/Bloomberg If the U.K. parliament supports her plan, it will never be forgiven. When Tony Blair and Boris Johnson unite in their condemnation of the “deal” under which Theresa May proposes that the U.K. should leave the EU, you know something has gone badly wrong. The withdrawal agreement is less a carefully crafted diplomatic…
Jenni Gritters/Medium Instagram may be the worst social media platform for our mental health Like many 24-year-olds, Alexandra Mondalek, a fashion reporter in New York, found herself obsessing over social media. Her rapidly growing fashion-focused Instagram account, @hautetakes, was gaining attention, with a little more than 1,000 followers, and it was all she could think…
AFP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could still visit Seoul for the first time in the next few weeks, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday, describing the possible trip as a major boost in efforts to make the peninsula nuclear-free. Moon and Kim have met three times in 2018 amid warming ties between…
Raj Abrar of DOT Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced yesterday that the final list of the grand alliance candidates for the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad (JS) polls will be declared in a day or two. “We’ll be able to finalize our list for the next polls in a day or two . ….
DOT Desk Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday thanked all her cabinet colleagues for extending whole-hearted cooperation in running the government, reports The Daily Sun. “This is the last sitting of the incumbent cabinet. I thank you all for your whole-hearted cooperation in running the government,” a source quoted the premier as saying during a…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Denmark plans to house the country’s most unwelcome foreigners in a most unwelcoming place: a tiny, hard-to-reach island that now holds the laboratories, stables and crematory of a centre for researching contagious animal diseases, reports New York Times. As if to make the message clearer, one of the two ferries…
UNB A total of 319 petitions have so far been filed with the Election Commission challenging the decisions of the returning officers over the rejection and acceptance of nomination papers submitted by aspirants to contest the next national election. Of them, 235 petitions were submitted on Tuesday while 84 on Monday, said the Election Commission….