Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the chancellor and business secretary have written to the UK’s main regulators asking them to come up with ideas for reform that could boost economic growth. They contacted watchdogs, including energy regulator Ofgem and water regulator Ofwat, before Christmas asking them to submit proposals by mid-January. This comes after figures published earlier this week indicated ...

BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy’s wife Jharna Roy has passed away. She was 70. She died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital at 4:00pm on Sunday (December 29) while underwent treatment there. It was confirmed by her daughter-in-law and Dhaka District BNP general secretary Advocate Nipun Roy Chowdhury. Jharna Roy had long been suffering from various diseases, ...

The remains of Harris Chowdhury, former political secretary to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, reinterred with state honours at Shafiqul Haque Chowdhury Memorial Orphanage in Kanaighat on Sunday. Earlier in the day, the remains Harris Chowdhury brought to Sylhet via air ambulance from Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) at Sylhet Circuit House at 9:30AM on Sunday for a second burial. His ...

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to launch a door-to-door campaign aimed at improving Value Added Tax (VAT) collection, as the revenue inflow from this sector looks to be “unsatisfactory”. According to data provided by the NBR, VAT collection up until October stood at Tk 41,192 crore, falling short of the target of Tk 51,904 crore. While briefing ...

Women and Children Affairs Adviser Sharmeen Soneya Murshid has underscored the need for revamping the Joyeeta Foundation with many reforms in the New Year. “Joyeeta Foundation needs many reforms. It will have to be revamped in the New Year,” she said while chairing the 24th meeting of the Board of Governors of Joyeeta Foundation at the conference room of Bangladesh ...

Postgraduate private trainee doctors of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) who passed the first phase of FCPS have blocked road at Shahbagh in the capital, demanding an increase in allowance. They took up position at Shahbagh intersection around 11:30 am on Sunday (December 29) with the trainee doctors were chanting slogans such as “Fulfil the doctors’ demands,” “No ...

Journalists will be able to enter the secretariat with temporary passes from Monday (December 30), said Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Sunday. “We’re not allowing anyone to enter the secretariat today (Sunday) as it is the last date of submission of initial report on the fire incident by the probe body. For this, you (journalists) ...

A group of robbers targeted the homes of expatriates in Sylhet’s Osmaninagar upazila on Thursday night, injuring three people and making off with significant amounts of gold, cash, and foreign currency. The victims include Anwara Begum, 60, and her son Hossain Ahmed, 22, from Latifpur village, and Siraj Mia, 40, from Madhabpur village. According to locals, a gang of 12 ...

At least 120 people were killed when an airliner landed without wheels, veering off the runway and erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said. Jeju Air flight 7C2216, arriving from the Thai capital Bangkok with 181 people on board, was attempting to land shortly ...

Five people were killed and two others injured after a passenger bus smashed an autorickshaw in Sherpur’s Sadar upazila. The accident happened at about 11:30AM on the Sherpur-Mymensing road. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. A bus belonging to ‘Rifat Paribahan’ hit a CNG-run autorickshaw at Bhatshala area, leaving five dead on the spot two injured. ...