Bangladesh

Opposing the decision of the government to keep the provision of black money whitening by paying only 15 percent taxes of the money which was not shown, the Voluntary Consumers Training and Awareness Society (VOCTA) suggested the government to scrap the provision and disclose the names of black money holders through newspapers after preparing a concrete list of such persons. ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sued former commissioner of large taxpayers’ unit (LTU) of value-added tax (VAT) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Waheeda Rahman Choudhury on chrage of embezzling money by causing losses amounting to Tk 152 crore of the state through misuse of power. The case was filed at the ACC’s integrated district office in Dhaka-1 on ...

Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman has been appointed as the new Army Chief of Bangladesh. With this appointment, he will be promoted to the rank of General, as confirmed by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Tuesday. He has been appointed as the Army chief for three years from June 23, according to a press release from ISPR. General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed ...

MP Anar murder: Mastermind Shahin’s two cars seized from Gulshan residence Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) of police have seized two cars from the garage of Aktaruzzaman Shahin, mastermind of Jhenidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar murder. The vehicles have been seized from Shahin’s Gulshan residence in the capital. One is white Prado and another is white microbus. Investigation-related sources said that ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from New Delhi tonight after attending the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi as the prime minister of India for a third consecutive term. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital at 7.15pm. The flight earlier departed from ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday sought Sri Lankan investment in Bangladesh’s tourism sector for mutual benefits of the two friendly countries. She made the appeal at a courtesy meeting with President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe at her Place of Residence here in the morning. “A discussion on how Sri Lankan investment can come to Bangladesh in its tourism sector ...

Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi called on visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here on Monday. She was accompanied by former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and party’s General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. “CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ji called on the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wazed ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday hinted that many people may be arrested in connection with the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar. “Many suspects may be arrested after completing the investigation of the Anar murder case,” he told journalists replying to a question at his ministry office in the capital. Replying to another question about a local leader ...

Three Rohingya men were reportedly hacked and shot dead during a clash between two rival groups Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO) at Ukhiya camp in Cox’s Bazar on Monday over establishing supremacy in the camp. The deceased were identified as Md Elias and Md Ishaq and Firoz Khan. Additional DIG Md Iqbal, commanding officer of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have expressed their desire that the existing bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries would be further deepened in the future. “The two leaders have expressed their hopes that the existing bilateral relations will be deepened further in the days to come,” Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud told a news ...