Revenue collection by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) witnessed a healthy 15.40 percent growth in the last fiscal year (FY24) bagging Taka 3,82,562 crore. Although the revenue collection witnessed growth in the last fiscal, but it still fell behind the revised fiscal revenue collection target of Taka 4.10 lakh crore, according to the latest data of the revenue board. ...

The government will observe a day of national mourning on Tuesday (July 30) to honour the memory of those killed in the recent countrywide violence centering the Quota Reform Movement. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Monday chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Mentionable, sabotage activities have been taken place in the country in the last few ...

The High Court has commented that ‘Don’t joke with the nation by taking people to the DB office and sitting them on the dinner table’. A bench consisting of Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam and Justice SM Masud Hossain Dolan made this comment on Monday (July 29) addressing the state side in the hearing of the writ petition filed seeking a ...

RAB arrests 334 people Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 334 people, till Monday morning, from different parts of the country for their alleged involvement in Vandalism, arson and sabotage during the recent violence over Quota Reform Protest. Of them, 83 people were arrested in Dhaka, while the rest from outside Dhaka, said ANM Imran Khan, assistant director (ASP) of the ...

Simone Biles made a blockbuster return to Olympic competition on Sunday, powering through left calf pain to get her multiple-medal bid off to a rousing start. The American, aiming to add to the four gold medals she won in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, tweaked her left calf warming up for her second apparatus, the floor exercise. It didn’t stop ...

E-commerce brings enormous business opportunities for women as it makes 24/7 business possible. The growth of e-commerce helps the women entrepreneur to generate new ideas and work from home. There is tremendous growth of women entrepreneurs in e-commerce sector. E-commerce impacts on business and productivity significantly. It creates a large prospect for economic advancement. E-commerce (Electronic commerce) is a big ...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro won reelection to a third six-year term with 51.2 percent of votes cast Sunday, the electoral council announced, after a campaign tainted by claims of opposition intimidation and fears of fraud. Elvis Amoroso, president of the CNE electoral body loyal to the government, told reporters 44.2 percent of the vote had gone to opposition candidate Edmundo ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Jamaat-Shibir terrorists initially maintained low profile intruding in-guise into the quota reform movement “but afterwards they appeared dangerously in the front cashing in on the movement”. She said this while Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh Gabriel Maria Sistiaga Ochoa de Chinchetru called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban. Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Md ...

Rudra Sen was a gentle young man who had never attended a political meeting or march. His parents dreamt that when he came home from university, he would be an engineer. Instead, what came home was his body. The eyes that waited to see their son are now stricken by pain. The only sound in the grieving house is moans. ...

Once an exotic fruit grown in China and neighbouring countries, it has now become a summer staple in Bangladesh. Farming of pitaya — dragon fruit — is common and the tropical fruit has become popular for its unique external structure, sweet taste, and texture. As a superfood, dragon fruit offers maximum nutritional benefits with minimal calories and is packed with ...