DOT Desk Income taxpayers will not get scope for paying penalty in reduced rate anymore for not filing income tax returns, National Board of Revenue said, reports The New Age. According to a clarification issued by income tax wing of NBR on December 17, tax officials get no authority to reduce the amount of applicable…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Election Commissioner Kabita Khanam has asked the presiding officers of Munshiganj to work without fear or favour.The election commissioner was addressing a training session of presiding officers in the district yesterday, reports UNB. “Following the rules and executing your duties properly are also part of honesty,” she said at a training…
Mandy Len Catron/ New York Post It’s the perfect Christmas movie and a towering masterpiece of American cinema. I’m speaking, of course, of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the much-loved 1946 Frank Capra feature that also anticipated something we badly need today: morals to moderate capitalism. All this, even though it very much reflects the race…
DOT Desk Sale of warm clothes has gained momentum in the district and its adjacent areas as mercury has plummeted across the region with the wintry chill intensifying over the last few days, reports The Financial Express. The traders of warm clothes have been doing brisk business at makeshift footpath shops as well as the…
Harold Evans/Reuters We have a year and seven fretful months before the Democratic Party’s national convention decides its nominee for president in July 2020. In the last race, the Republicans fielded 17 major candidates. The smart money was on Florida Governor Jeb Bush. He dropped out in February 2016, too choked up to mention Donald…
DOT Desk A total of 31 entities won the ICAB National Award in 10 different categories for their best presented annual reports 2017, reports The Financial Express. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) distributed the awards at a formal event held at a city hotel on Monday. The IDLC Finance Limited, a leading…
Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh Bank (BB) has restricted age limit to maximum 65 years for bankers serving at the top positions of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Managing Directors and Additional Managing Directors (AMDs) of private banking companies. A circular has been served on private banks by the central bank on Monday last. Seniors bankers…
Reuters A Mexican governor and her senator husband were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a bitterly contested election. Martha Erika Alonso, a senior opposition figure and governor of the state of Puebla, died with…
DOT Desk Farmers in different areas of Sylhet division are busy for preparing Boro seedbeds, reports The Financial Express. An official at the Sylhet divisional office of DAE said on Monday so far 25,975 hectares of land have been used for Boro seedbed although the target was set at 21,945 hectares earlier. It includes 14,402…
UNB Detectives arrested the wife and daughter of jamaat leader Gazi Nazrul Islam, who is contesting the 11th parliamentary election with BNP ticket from Satkhira-4 constituency, from the district jail premises on charge of planning sabotage on Tuesday. The arrestees are Maksuda Khanam, wife of Nazrul Islam and her daughter Sharmin Sultana Khuku. Ali Ahmed…