DOT Desk After a hiatus of 11 years from the silver screen, Minister of Cultural Affairs Asaduzzaman Noor is prepping for a comeback, reports The Daily Star. He will be seen portraying the role of a politician in Gangchil, the cinematic adaptation of Awami League General Secretary, Obaidul Quader’s novel by the same name. His…
Rajeev Dhavan/Daily O, India We execute the poor. The rich get off. Justice Kurian Joseph’s judgment of November 28 in Chhannulal; two days before he retired asks us whether a rethink on death penalty is called for. Before we proceed, we must note Justice Joseph’s approach that the law is both severity and kindness. This…
AP After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles (19 kilometers) of the diamond-shaped space rock. It will get even closer in the days ahead and go into orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31….
Arafat Hasan of DOT The Election Commission has finalized a total of 40,199 polling centers across the country for the 11th national election scheduled for December 30.Election Commission Deputy Secretary Md Abdul Halim Khan told reporters yesterday that the commission has already started publishing gazettes regarding this. According to Representation of the People Order (RPO),…
DOT Desk The Ministry of Finance has given the go-ahead to the Ministry of Commerce to move forward towards signing bilateral and multilateral free trade area (FTA) agreements with developed and developing countries, officials said, reports The Financial Express. The finance ministry also suggested expanding the export basket through adding more items to the list….
Anne Applebaum, a noted columnist and a Pulitzer Prize winning author/Gulf News In contemporary times democracies need to listen to more voices Fire, flares and tear gas scorched Paris on Saturday night; on Sunday morning, the carcasses of burned cars littered the streets, and graffiti covered the Arc de Triomphe. Smaller, and mostly more peaceful,…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Six Mexican police were shot dead on Monday in the western state of Jalisco, authorities said, in one of the bloodiest attacks on security forces in recent months on the first weekday of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s new administration, reports Reuters. Jalisco state prosecutors said on Twitter that six state…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The BNP has accused the government of obstructing its nominees’ appeals against nomination rejections, reports bdnews24.com Returning officers have plotted to keep noted BNP leaders away from the election following a directive from the government, said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. BNP candidates in Rajshahi Barrister Aminul Haque…
DOT Desk A total of 16.92 lakh individual taxpayers including 2.13 lakh new ones filed their income tax returns within the deadline ended on Sunday, in the current fiscal year of 2018-2019, according to National Board of Revenue data, reports The New Age. The number of tax returns rose by 14 per cent in this…
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…