Cars entering Dhaka may have to pay tax
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday announced a Tk 1,984.53 crore budget for 2013-2014 fiscal year, proposing to reintroduce a scheme of tax-collection from vehicles entering the capital....
View ArticleArmy chopper crash landed
A pilot sustained injuries as a training helicopter of Bangladesh Army crash landed at Chouthan in Dhamrai upazila on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a...
View ArticleSocial protection not enough
Bangladesh came in 28th out of the 35 Asian countries surveyed for its provision of social protection for its poor and vulnerable citizens. The neighbouring Nepal, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan fared...
View ArticleJP ‘neutral’
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has opted for not supporting any of the two frontrunner mayoral aspirants in the Gazipur City Corporation polls as a strategy to gain more political mileage out of the...
View ArticleUnpaid tax; not politics
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) may confiscate the assets of opposition-backed mayoral candidate in Gazipur city polls MA Mannan to realise his due tax. “If necessary, and there is not enough money...
View ArticleDon’t play foul with army
Major General Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy, General Officer Commanding of Savar Cantonment, yesterday urged all not to play foul with the army. “If you play foul with the army, there is a possibility that...
View ArticleOn official trip, for niece’s wedding
The private visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to London turns into an official one, raising eyebrows both at home and abroad. The change of the trip status means taxpayers will have to bear the...
View ArticleBig shots make most of outsiders’ last day
Many stalwarts and central leaders of the Awami League and the BNP were involved in last minute frantic campaigning in the polls to Gazipur City Corporation yesterday as the time for electioneering ran...
View ArticleMorsi ousted
The Egyptian army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi yesterday after a week of bloodshed that killed nearly 50 people as millions took to the streets to demand an end to his turbulent single year...
View ArticleLeave it alone
The BNP yesterday called upon the media not to make an issue out of Khaleda Zia’s write-up in The Washington Times seeking western intervention to save the country’s democracy by putting pressure on...
View ArticleAirport can now expand
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has repossessed its 105 acres of land worth more than Tk 3,000 crore from a Singapore-based company that had been controversially awarded the lease of the...
View ArticleArmy ousts Egypt’s President Morsi
The head of Egypt’s army has given a TV address, announcing that President Mohammed Morsi is no longer in office. Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the constitution had been suspended and the chief justice...
View ArticleComputer mouse inventor dies at 88
The inventor of the computer mouse, Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88. Engelbart developed the tool in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse’s...
View ArticleEgypt army arrests Morsi
Egypt’s army was holding ousted President Mohamed Morsi at a military facility in Cairo on Thursday and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested in a crackdown on the movement that won several...
View ArticleSKorea proposes fresh talks with North
South Korea offered to hold talks with North Korea aimed at reopening a jointly run factory park near the armed border between the two countries just three weeks after their last attempt at dialogue...
View ArticleActive brain ‘keeps dementia at bay’
Keeping mentally active by reading books or writing letters helps protect the brain in old age, a study suggests. A lifetime of mental challenges leads to slower cognitive decline after factoring out...
View ArticleUK govt summons 20 retailers to avoid industry disaster in Bangladesh
Primark, Tesco and Marks & Spencer were among 20 retailers summoned to a UK government summit as ministers sought steps to prevent a repeat of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh that...
View ArticleStocks upbeat
The prices of the most shares on the country’s premier bourse gained during the first two hours of trading on Thursday, the last trading day of the week. DGEN, the general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange...
View ArticlePM leaves for UK
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka Thursday morning on an eight-day official visit to the United Kingdom and Belarus. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, carrying the PM and her entourage,...
View ArticleScientists create human liver from stem cells
Scientists have for the first time created a functional human liver from stem cells derived from skin and blood and say their success points to a future where much-needed livers and other transplant...
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