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Time to tighten belt further

admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:17:53 +0000

Budget of Middleclass
Time to tighten belt further
Last year Abidur Rahim missed most of the budget speech. So this year he finished work early and rushed to catch a bus home. It is now a regular pain for him being in…

Possibilities there, risks too

admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:13:11 +0000

Big budget eyes higher growth under favourable factors, pins hope on smooth implementation of plans
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has eyed a higher economic growth of 7 percent — the highest for Bangladesh if we exclude the 1972 level — and…

Black money beckons

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:55:42 +0000

Govt may offer amnesty for investors in share market, infrastructure
The government may allow whitening money in two sectors in the next national budget under pressure from interest groups.
It considers giving scope for whitening money only in the stockmarket and the…

Muhith wonders at investors’ behaviour

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:48:52 +0000

Finance minister A M A Muhith has said 0.1 million new investors entered the stock market when it experienced the downfall.
“I don’t understand their behaviour….do they come for speculation?” he told parliament replying to a question from Awami League MP Abdur…

Property tax from next year

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:47:56 +0000

Tax to reduce rich-poor difference: NBR
The government is going to introduce property tax next year, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) said on Sunday.
“The plan is to start collecting the tax from the beginning of 2012-2013 fiscal year, meaning July…

Freight train derails in Bhairab

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:46:45 +0000

Two compartments of a freight train derailed near
Bhairab station in Kishoreganj on Sunday afternoon, halting rail communication on the Dhaka-Chittagong route.
The communication on the route was not restored till 7:15, reports our Kishoreganj correspondent.
The compartments of the army goods carrier…

MMCH interns strike on 3rd day

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:44:18 +0000

Interns and students of Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital staged a sit-in in front of the hospital building on the third day of their strike on Sunday.
They started their protest programme at about 9:00am Sunday, reports our Mymensingh correspondent.
The agitators…

4 die in Munshiganj road crash

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:43:17 +0000

Four people were killed and another was injured when a truck fell down after breaking the railing of Moskarpur Bridge in Munshiganj Sunday afternoon.
Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately, reports our Munshiganj correspondent.
Md Shahidul Islam, officer-in-charge of…

Hashem not arrested!

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:42:34 +0000

Hours after confirming the arrest of Partex Group chairman M A Hashem in a tax-evasion case, police now claim that he came to police station on ‘personal business’.
Tejgaon zone deputy commissioner Harun-ur-Rashid on Sunday said: “Hashem had come to Sher-e-Bangla…

‘Unethical practices to come under probe’

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:40:44 +0000

Stocks Crash
‘Unethical practices to come under probe’
The committee formed to probe the recent share market debacle will investigate matters that are ‘unethical, but not illegal’.
Committee chairman Khondker Ibrahim Khaled said on Sunday they would also make recommendations so that such…