Monirul Alam of DOT Bangladesh received higher volume of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in the just-concluded year of 2018 compared to the previous year, the provisional data of Bangladesh Bank (BB) says. The country fetched USD 2580.44 million between January and December 2018. The FDI inflow in the previous year (2017) was USD 2454.81 million,…
BBC: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has broken off relations with the US after it recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim leader. Mr Maduro gave US diplomats 72 hours to leave the country but the US said the “former president” no longer had the authority to order them out. On Wednesday, Mr Guaidó had declared…
AP, The Hague German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been honored for her leadership in a series of crises that have hit Europe in recent years, from the financial meltdown to the massive migration influx. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte lauded Merkel as she was presented with the International Four Freedoms Award at a ceremony Thursday…
Reported by: Rafiq Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Letters were sent to all the field officers of Election Commission, asking for suggestions regarding the Public Representative Laws on 29 May. EC has decided to revise all the regarding laws upon their advices. In order to, make the electoral laws more timely-suitable for the upcoming…
Nashrat Arshiana Chowdhury On Monday the senior vice-chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman sent a legal notice to the Prime Minister’s political advisor HT Imam asking him to apologies to people or Tarique for his recent insulting remarks against him. Tarique’s lawyer Kayser Kamal sent the legal notice which said that Tarique…
DOT Desk: In the wake of countrywide massive anti-narcotics crackdown by law enforcers, drug lords in Cox’s Bazar are going to surrender to the authorities and return to normal life thereafter, reports The Daily Sun. As part of the move, many listed yaba smugglers who went into hiding have reportedly started coming out of their…
Raj Ahmed of DOT The High Court directed the Election Commission yesterday to dispose of the applications filed for cancellation of the candidacy of 25 Jamaat-e-Islami men in three working days. The court also issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the EC’s decision to allow 25 Jamaat candidates to…
Ziazuddin Raju Online services for Trade License Collection & Holding Tax Submission have been inaugurated by the Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Syed Khokan,at the South Town Hall yesterday. These services aim to make such governmental processingeasier &faster for the general public, said the Mayor. Now, any businessman can apply for their trade…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has rejected Transparency International Bangladesh’s (TIB) report on the 11th parliamentary election held on December 30 last year. “We are completely rejecting the TIB report on election. It is baseless,” the CEC said while talking to reporters at his office after a programme in Dhaka…