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 ...

Boris Johnson has handed over all his WhatsApp messages to the Covid-19 inquiry, bypassing the government which was seeking legal action to keep them private. The former PM says he is also willing to share information from an old mobile phone which he stopped using in May 2021 due to a security breach, but he requires assistance in accessing it ...

Bangladesh Awami League nominated mayoral candidate Anoruzzaman Chowdhury has started his official campaign in the Sylhet City Corporation election. Soon after the allotment of Pratik, he started campaigning in Mendibagh and Suburban areas of the city. Today Friday (June 2) morning, immediately after the allotment of icons, he went to campaign with the leaders and activists. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ...

FIFA on Friday announced the release of about 250,000 more tickets for the Women’s World Cup, amid concerns about sales for matches in New Zealand. A fresh batch of tickets will be released Tuesday for all 64 matches in Australia and New Zealand, days after tournament CEO Jane Patterson admitted worry about interest. The World Cup kicks off on July ...

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 ...

Communication is the art of listening and responding, keeping in mind the situation. A safe and happy relationship is based on the ability to communicate things, being transparent and finding ways to understand each other through healthy communication. Therapist Israa Nasir added a few ways by which we can improve our communication skills; they are as follows: Understanding the difference: ...

Utimaco, one of the leading Hardware Security Module (HSM) OEM from Germany, and Genex Infosys Limited, one of the leading IT solutions providersin the country, organised a collaborative event at a hotel in the capital on May 29. The event, titled “Creating Trust in the Digital Banking World,” was an interactive session by the experts from Utimaco and Genex Infosys ...

Bangladesh reported two more COVID-19-linked deaths and 89 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning. With the new numbers, the country’s total fatalities rose to 29,448 and caseload to 2,039,506, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The daily case test positivity rate dropped to 5.87 per cent from Thursday’s 5.99 per cent as 1,515 samples were ...

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 ...