Raj Abrar: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has announced that local automobile manufacturers and assemblers will be awarded special facilities in the upcoming budget for fiscal year 2018-19 (FY19). “NBR will give the local automobile manufacturers and assemblers special facilities as our main target is to discourage imports of automobiles to create jobs in the…
Sayeed Muhammad: Acc-laimed author and academician Prof Zafar Iqbal, who was attacked at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in March, will return to campus today.“I am doing fine now. I have to return to the campus and take classes and hold exams,” said he, reports the Dhaka Tribune.Prof Iqbal is expected to leave for…
Sayeed Muhammad: At least eight people have been killed and 26 injured after a bus crashed into a ditch in Gopalganj’s Muksudpur area.The accident took place on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway around 2:30am yesterday, bdnews24.com.A Sugandha Paribahan bus headed from Dhaka to Barisal veered off the road and struck a culvert before crashing into the ditch, said police,…
Sayeed Muhammad: A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking Tk1 crore as compensation for 20 affected people each who lost one of their eyes after operations at a Chuadanga hospital.Lawyer Amit Dasgupta filed the petition yesterday after a report styled “20 people lose eyes at an eye campaign” published in a…
Xasir Youssaf: The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2018 under 10 education boards will begin across the country today amid tough measures taken to check question paper leakage and other malpractices in the examinations. The authorities concerned have taken stern measures to check question paper leakage in the Higher Secondary Certificate…
Raj Abrar: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has advised ministries and divisions yesterday to improve infrastructure for the expansion, development and strengthening the monitoring of scouting in every district.The Premier pledged to provide the necessary government assistance to )make scouts as eligible citizens of Bangladesh in order to lead the nation into the future.”You must get yourselves…
Sofian Khan: Describing the arson attacks by BNP-Jamaat clique in recent past as terrorist acts, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she doesn’t want the recurrence of such evil deeds in the country anymore.”We don’t want such terrorist acts to occur again…these are absolutely terrorist acts…we want peace in the country,” she said at a…