Bangladesh

Bangladesh pledged voluntary contribution of $50,000to to the “United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)” for the year 2023 . The announcement came at the UNRWA pledging conference held Saturday at UNHQs, said a press release. The modest contribution is a demonstration of steadfast commitment of the Government and people of Bangladesh to ...

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh’s senior nayebe ameer Allama Shah Muhammad Yahya passed away early Saturday. He breathed his last around 1:20am at United Hospital in the capital while undergoing treatment there. Shah Muhammad Yahya, also the director general of Al Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Uloom Moinul Islam in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila, had been suffering from various old age complications. As health condition deteriorated ...

The proposed national budget of the next fiscal was not prepared at the dictation of International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Friday. “Rather, the proposed budget was prepared keeping common people’s welfare in mind,” he said while addressing a post-budget press conference at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre in the capital. However, steps have been taken ...

Bangladesh government has signed a deal to import 1.80 lakh tonnes of Muriate of Potash, which is known as MoP, from Russia in 2023-24 fiscal year. Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) and the Prodintorg, a Russian state-owned enterprise, have signed the agreement on Thursday (June1) at Russian capital Moscow, said an official release in Dhaka on Friday. Chairman of BADC ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Friday morning reached Turkey’s capital Ankara on a six-day visit to attend the installation ceremony of Turkish President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slated for June 3. “A VVIP aircraft (Flight No. BG207) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the President along with his spouse Dr Rebecca Sultana and his entourage members, landed at Ankara Esenboga Airport, Ankara at ...

The proposal of imposing a minimum tax of Tk 2,000 even on those individuals who do not have taxable incomes is illogical and immoral, said Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Friday. It urged the government to withdraw the proposal of the minimum income tax. “On the one hand, the government has proposed to increase the tax-free income limit to ...

Chittagong-10 (Double Mooring-Halishahar-Khulsi-Katalganj) lawmaker and former minister Dr Md Afsarul Amin died at a hospital in the capital on Friday afternoon. He was 71. Dr Afsarul Amin, who had been suffering from lung cancer for the last two years. His lung cancer was detected in January 2020. Since then he had been taking treatment regularly but could not be recovered. ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin left Dhaka for Ankara on a six-day-visit to attend the installation ceremony of Turkish president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slated for June 3. “The President, at the invitation of the Turkey government, will attend the oath-taking ceremony of his Turkish counterpart at the Presidential Complex in Ankara at 5 pm (Turkey local time) there,” President’s press secretary Md ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin today authenticated the proposed national budget for FY 2023-24 and the revised budget for FY 2022-23 for placing before the Jatiya Sangsad by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. The Head of the State authenticated the proposed national budget of over Taka 7.61 lakh crore for the next fiscal year (FY24) at his Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban office (parliament ...

The Election Commission is taking action plan as per a roadmap it prepared for the upcoming national election, said Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Thursday. “We have already prepared a road map for the next parliamentary elections. Accordingly, we are developing our action plan and we are proceeding as per the scheduled date,” he told Japanese Ambassador to ...