Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission has issued detail procedure for selling of mobile connections by the retailers after October 12 when the mobile operators will not be allowed to sell pre-activated connections. The BTRC in a notice on Thursday asked the mobile operators to complete all of their
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TATA launches vehicle for small businesses
TATA and its business partner in Bangladesh, Nitol Niloy Group, yesterday launched their new commercial vehicle, geared toward small businesses here. Powered by a 611 cubic centimetre water-cooled engine, the TATA Ace Zip Pickup is the smallest commercial vehicle of TATA, with a payload
Implement RTI act fully to curb graft
Rally told Effective implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act is essential in curbing corruption as keeping information secret leads to corruption and free flow of information resists breeding of corruption, said speakers at a rally yesterday. Tathya Odhikar Andolon (Campaign for Citizen’s Right to Information) organised the
Govt finds 1,000 Hajj passports ‘suspicious’
Hajj agencies asked to give more docs The government has asked Hajj agencies to provide more documents of 1,000 ‘suspicious’ Hajj pilgrims to decide whether they will be allowed to go to Saudi Arabia. ‘As we have found passports of about 1,000 people suspicious, we have asked Hajj agencies to provide financial statements and other ... Read more
Social safety should be ensured to end child marriage: roundtable
Development activists, population experts and government high officials on Thursday said despite having preventive laws, child marriage could not be stopped in the country for lack of social protection, education and awareness. At a roundtable organised on the eve of the first ever International Day of Girl Child to be celebrated on October 11, they underscored the ... Read more
Biman to start Hajj flights from Ctg
Amid demand from local travel agencies and passengers, Biman Bangladesh Airlines will start operating direct Hajj flights on Chittagong-Jeddah route from Shah Amanat Airport on Monday, officials said yesterday. Biman’s District Manager of Chittagong Dilip Kumar Chowdhury said they got approval for
32nd BCS (special) written test results published
The Public Service Commission yesterday published the written test results of the 32nd (Special) Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations with a total of 2,788 candidates coming out successful. The results are available on www.bpsc.gov.bd. The viva-voce of the candidates is likely to be held on October 31, said
SSC maths exams in creative system from 2015
The students, who will take the Secondary School Certificate examinations in 2015, will have to answer the question for mathematics and higher mathematics in creative question method instead of the century-old descriptive-type. The education ministry on Thursday issued a circular, signed by education secretary
World Tourism Day observed
The World Tourism Day was celebrated in Bangladesh on Thursday to make it a tourist destination. ‘Tourism and Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development,’ was the theme of the day this year. To mark the day, Bangladesh Tourism Board organised a roundtable discussion at the National Press Club. Speaking at the session civil aviation and tourism ... Read more
Honda inks deal to assemble motorbikes in Bangladesh
The Honda Motor Company, Japan’s biggest motorcycle manufacturer, and the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation on Thursday signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in Bangladesh to assemble, and later manufacture, motorcycles by the end of this year. The joint venture, Bangladesh Honda Private Ltd, will assemble 10,000 motorcycles in the
IMF irked as major conditions for loan remain unfulfilled
The lender may defer the second instalment of $1b The IMF may defer the disbursement of the second instalment of its $1 billion loans for Bangladesh if the government does not fulfil all the related conditions, the lender said. An IMF mission conveyed this message to the government as some of the major conditions were ... Read more
FBCCI urges BB not to charge for inter-bank transactions
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Thursday requested the Bangladesh Bank not impose charge on clients for inter-bank money transaction. The FBCCI in a statement said it had come to know from media reports that the central bank was going to impose charge on clients of all banks for inter-bank
Draft BTRC orders eye slashed P1 internet rate
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has drafted a host of orders for mobile operators to give better services to subscribers including reduced rate for ‘pay as you go’ or P1 internet package. The commission on Thursday posted the draft on its web site and sought public opinion by October 10. As per the draft orders, the ... Read more
Banks, tax offices remain open Saturday
All major and important branches at the divisional and the district levels of the government and private commercial banks will remain open on Saturday for the convenience of the taxpayers to submit tax returns and pay their taxes. On the same purpose, all the income tax offices of the National Board of Revenue will remain open on ... Read more
Canada keen to help Bangladesh realise its economic potential
Canada is eager to extend support to Bangladesh’s economy and boost the country’s foreign direct investment receipts, Heather Cruden, the Canadian high commissioner to Bangladesh, said yesterday. “Canada joins the world in applauding Bangladesh’s impressive economic growth of 6 percent in the last five years,” said Cruden at the luncheon programme of the Foreign Investors’
Taxpayers made to run around
Nurul Islam, who works at a private television channel, went to Segun Bagicha tax office on Tuesday to submit his return, as he has done over the past several years. He was taken aback when informed that his tax circle had been changed after an increase in the number of tax zones and circles by ... Read more
Promoting PPP projects for ultra poor underscored
Rights activists on Wednesday urged all concerned to promote public-private partnership to improve health, education and livelihood for the ultra poor, particularly to ensure their food security. The call was made at a national workshop on ‘sharing evaluation findings and lessons learnt: health, education and livelihood support programme for ultra poor households project’ at
ADB to give $50 million loan
Improving Primary Healthcare ADB to give $50 million loan The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $50 million to finance a project which aims to help improve primary healthcare services for the urban poor. Iqbal Mahmood, senior secretary to the Economic Relations Division (ERD) and M Teresa Kho, country director of ADB’s Bangladesh Resident Mission,
Ministry to set up body for online media policy draft
The information ministry on Wednesday decided to set up a committee involving online media stakeholders to work out a draft of the online media policy. The information secretary, Hedayetullah Al Mamoon, said that they would set up the committee to draft the online media policy. ‘Previously we made the talking point. But that was not
School dropout rate higher in three hill districts: Study
Due to linguistic barriers and improper academic curriculum, school students of the three hill districts are being deprived of quality education, which causes high dropout rate in the region compared to the national level dropout, a study has revealed. While the average dropout rate is around 30 percent at primary schools at national