Finance minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said a Permanent Pay Commission for public servants will be formed by mid-November. “We have only 15-20 days in hand for taking a decision in principle. So, we will form the Permanent Pay Commission by November 15.
Month: October 2013
20 kg gold seized at airport
Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate in separate drives seized 170 gold bars weighting 20 kilograms and arrested one person at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital within a span of nine hours till Wednesday. The arrested was identified as Sohel Rahman, 38. Sohel is from Sylhet, he returned from United Arab Emirates by a ... Read more
2 robbers killed in ‘gunfight’
Two robbers, including the kingpin of a gang, were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chandpai range of Sundarbans in Bagerhat yesterday. The dead are Mortuza Hossain Rana, 32, of Joymoni village and his associate Mosaref Sheikh, 30, of Ghol village under Mongla upazila. Maj Anwarul Kabir,
Court sets fresh date for BDR verdict on Nov 5
A sessions court in Dhaka on Wednesday set a fresh date on November 5 for delivering the verdict of BDR carnage case. Additional metropolitan sessions court judge-III Md Akhtaruzaman, who was scheduled to deliver the verdict on Wednesday in the case against 846 accused, has fixed the fresh date. On the day, the defence lawyer, Faroque Ahmed, ... Read more
Cricket fans vandalise bank as they fail to collect ODI tickets
Cricket fans on Wednesday vandalised the branch of United Commercial Bank at Mirpur-10 as many of them failed to collect tickets for second one-day international between Bangladesh and New Zealand. They became angry failing to collect the tickets after waiting for hours in the queue in front of the UCBL branch that sold the tickets. Later,
City dwellers menaced by mosquito
Mosquito nuisance has added to the sufferings of the city dwellers in Dhaka, already dogged by multifarious problems, in absence of drives to check the breeding of the insect. Residents of different city areas have alleged that they saw no measures taken to control the mosquito breeding in October. Officials of the two city
Fund crunch halts road renovation in Khulna
The Khulna City Corporation has stopped the renovation work of 40 damaged city roads because of insufficient fund. The KCC started this renovation project for 80 damaged roads involving Tk 200 crore in the last financial year. The work orders were issued in February and March this year after completing the official formalities through inviting tenders
Strengthening BSTI stressed
The government would show zero tolerance to negligence in duties of field level officials at the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution in monitoring food items and manufactured products, industries minister Dilip Barua said in Dhaka on Tuesday. ‘We want to show zero tolerance to negligence in duties of BSTI officials. Legal action would be taken against
Additional police deployed on RU campus
The residential halls at Rajshahi University reopened on Tuesday amid tight security and the regular classes will resume today after the vacation of Eid-ul-Azha and Puja. The security measures have been tightened through deploying additional police at the halls and on the campus to avert any untoward situation.
Eid albums fail to attract much audience
Only a few out of the 70 audio and video albums released in a week during the Eid-ul-Azha could make profit, said sources at the production houses of the country. The production houses admitted that their strategy of releasing huge number of albums to resurrect the slumped trade audio market had actually failed. They further admitted ... Read more
Banglavision pays tribute to Manna Dey
Popular singers Badshah Bulbul and Moutushi will sing songs of Manna Dey in a tributary phonolive studio concert to be aired today at 11:25pm on Banglavision. In the programme titled Music Club, the singers will present popular numbers of the late music icon Manna Dey. Besides, they will share theirexperiences with the recently demised Dey. Audience ... Read more
Aamir Khan gets US award
Aamir Khan has been felicitated with a prestigious US award in recognition of his successful effort to create debate on country’s pressing social problems through his popular TV show ‘Satyamev Jayate’, reports India Today. The 47-year-old Bollywood star was presented with the Inaugural America Abroad Media Award along with Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow and the ... Read more
Shahartoli releases 2nd album
Shahartoli came to discussion after releasing a song on Felani tragedy that made the people protest against such barbaric border killings by Border Security Force of India. In fact, most of the songs of its debut album, Borabor, released by the band in 2011 were social message oriented. The band, which has also
ADP spending only 11pc in Q1
Implementation of the annual development programme was tardy as the government ministries and agencies could spend only 11 per cent of the programme in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, according to data released on Tuesday by the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the planning ministry. The ADP implementation rate declined
PDB consultant finds little potential for wind power
An Indian company, appointed by the Power Development Board, has found little potential for tapping wind power for electricity generation at two important locations alongside the sea shore, officials said. Regent Powertech found an average wind flow with less than 5 kilometres per hour speed at Muhuri Dam point of Shonagazi in Feni and at Mognama ... Read more
Export to India drops by 29pc in Q1 despite RMG rise
Export to India declined by 29.42 per cent to $91.75 million in the first quarter of the current fiscal year from that of $129.99 million in the same period of the FY 2012-13 due to deprecation of the rupee against the US dollar, exporters and experts said. The Export Promotion Bureau data showed that the export ... Read more
BB introduces school banking policy
Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday introduced a school banking policy in a bid to disseminate financial inclusion across the country and encourage the students to develop a habit of saving money. To this end, the BB on the day issued a circular to managing directors and chief executive officers of all the scheduled banks saying that ... Read more
Islamic banks to get refinance fund from BB
Central bank launches Tk 100cr scheme The Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday said country’s Islamic banks and Shariah-based non-bank financial institutions would get refinance fund for the first time from the central bank. The banks and NBFIs will get the fund to give loans to rural area-based ago-processing and small industries. A BB official told New Age ... Read more
NBR likely to extend time again
Tax Returns Submission NBR likely to extend time again The National Board of Revenue is likely to extend the deadline for submission of income tax returns by individual taxpayers by one more month to November 30, NBR officials said. They said the number of returns submitted till Tuesday was very low with only two days ... Read more
Revenue collection grows by 17pc in Q1
NBR, however, falls short of target Revenue collection by the National Board of Revenue grew by 17.09 per cent or Tk 3,615 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal year compared with that in the same period of the last fiscal year, the NBR data released on Tuesday showed. Despite a healthy growth in ... Read more