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NBR fails to achieve downsized revenue target for FY14

The National Board of Revenue is going to set a strategic plan today to achieve its revenue collection target for the current fiscal year of 2014-15 in the backdrop of a significant shortfall in collection in the last fiscal year, NBR officials said. They said that the NBR fell short of its revised target by around Tk 4,500 crore in the FY 2013-14 as the VAT and income tax wings of the revenue board failed to achieve the target set for the year. nbr 222In this context, the revenue board called a meeting to prepare the plan and invited all its...

Gazette published on nat’l broadcast policy

The government today published a gazette on the National Broadcast Policy-2014 despite widespread criticism from different media and rights groups and political parties. mediaThe government today published a gazette on the National Broadcast Policy-2014 despite widespread criticism from different media and rights groups and political parties. An information ministry official confirmed it to The Daily Star. The cabinet approved the policy on Monday keeping much scope for the government to misuse the policy in the name of maintaining standard of news, pro...

In a first, Andhra rice reaches Tripura via Bangladesh

After diplomatic and strategic parleys that lasted for nearly three years, for the first time rice from Andhra Pradesh reached Tripura via Bangladesh Thursday, an official said. pariza rice panicleThree Bangladeshi trucks loaded with rice entered India through the Akhaura integrated check post Thursday afternoon in the presence of Food Corporation of India (FCI) and Tripura government officials. “For the first time, Bangladeshi trucks transported rice from Ashuganj port in Bangladesh directly to the FCI warehouse at Nan...

Bangladesh Embassy in SA shifts to new location 

The Bangladesh Embassy has moved to a new location in the capital this week to offer improved services. The mission, which was at Al-Warood Quarter, has been shifted to Al-Waha district, Building No. 33, Al-Sheikh Hossain bin Hasan Street in Al-Waha district. sa bd embassyMohamed Shahidul Islam, ambassador of Bangladesh, told Arab News on Wednesday that the new embassy premises will accommodate a larger number of expatriates who come for consular work daily. He pointed out that an average of 2,000 Bangladeshis visit the mission...

Disaster-resistant homes bring relief to coastal Bangladeshis

"Even a light wind used to pound my heart, lest my home would be washed away again," Begum told Khabar South Asia. "We used to jump from bed and started praying to the Almighty." shelter homeThe Bainpara village residents in southwestern Bagerhat District moved to a makeshift bamboo-and-thatched home on the edge of the Shibsha River which swells every six hours, inundating the ground underneath. Its roar of wind and tidal surge constantly reminded them of Aila's devastation . Now, her days of worrymay be overthanks to the UN Development Programme's ( UNDP ) Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) aimed at...

The triple whammy for indigenous women in Dhaka

I am one of many indigenous women living and working in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh where thousands struggle to make a living in the beauty, garment and domestic work industries. Most are poor, with little education and lack access to basic healthcare and social protection. In fact, indigenous peoples around the world share these injustices. khumi-women-iBut my story is different. I’m 32 years old and I’m from the Lushai community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. In 2010 I left my family and headed for Dhaka on my own to work as a...
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