Bangladesh

Banks dominate list of top corporate taxpayers

Shawdesh Desk: Country’s bank sector with eight private commercial banks dominated the list of top-10 highest corporate taxpayers in last fiscal year (2018-2019) despite a cut in the corporate tax

Around 120,000 prepaid gas metres await JICA nod

Shawdesh DesK: Some 1,20,000 prepaid gas metres are likely to be added to the ongoing project of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd to install those in the southern

HC scolds law enforcers for press conference during probes

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court Division on Tuesday scolded the police and other law enforcement agencies for holding press conference by presenting arrested people before the media during pendency of

Why Minni should not be granted bail: HC

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court today issued a rule asking the government to explain in a week why Aysha Siddika Minni should not be granted bail in her husband Rifat

IAEA, FAO, WHO joint team to help Bangladesh to control Aedes mosquitoes

Shawdesh Desk: A joint expert team of International Atomic Energy Agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and World Health Organisation will assess the feasibility of Sterile Insect

Government offices, public spaces still a threat

Shawdesh Desk: As Bangladesh, especially the capital is reeling under massive dengue outbreak, mobile courts run by Dhaka’s two city corporations are penalising the residents keeping public places and government

DNCC launches ‘combing operation’ to tackle dengue

Shawdesh Desk: Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Md Atiqul Islam on Tuesday said owners would be fined if Aedes larvae were found in houses under his city corporation after

SC clears way for publishing 9th Wage Board gazette for journos

Shawdesh Desk: The Supreme Court Appellate Division today stayed for eight weeks the High Court order that had imposed status quo on publishing gazette notification for implementing the recommendations of