DITF hoped fetching significant export orders
The month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), 2014, the 19th edition of the annual event, begins here on Saturday with a high hope of fetching significant export orders.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the fair, a platform for both local and foreign producers to showcase the products, at city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on the grounds to the west of the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the morning.
ACCA Bangladesh hosts annual career fair in city
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is organising its annual ACCA Fair 2014 at the University of Dhaka on 10 and 11 January. The event will give potential students and their parents an opportunity to meet with ACCA’s Approved Learning Providers as well potential future employers.
Authoritarian obstinacy wins, democracy loses in Bangladesh: AHRC
The Bangladesh Government and Election Commission have jointly staged their tragicomic ‘general election’ on January 5, 2014. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reflected pre-election realities and portended election day and post-election horrors in its last statement. January 5 fulfilled its promise of violence, rigging, and farce; now it remains to be seen how low Bangladesh will sink in the wake of this fake election.
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NBR asked to cut RMG export tax at 0.3pc
The government has bowed to the pressure of readymade garment manufacturers by agreeing to reduce significantly tax on apparel exports.
The national board of revenue officials told that the ministry of finance directed them to lower the tax at 0.3 per cent from existing 0.8 per cent.
NBR, which is going to face a revenue shortfall of around Tk 13,000 crore in the current fiscal, has also asked to make the directive effective from January 1, 2014.
They said the new rate would cost the r...
NBR, which is going to face a revenue shortfall of around Tk 13,000 crore in the current fiscal, has also asked to make the directive effective from January 1, 2014.
They said the new rate would cost the r...
Devyani indicted in US visa row
The Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest in the US sparked protests from India, has been formally indicted by a US grand jury.
However, prosecutors said that Devyani, 39, had also been granted immunity and that US officials had asked her to leave the country, reports BBC.
Prosecutors initially said she had already left but were later told by her lawyer that she was still in the US.
Jan 5 elections were not a credible reflection: Mozena
US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena on Thursday said, we made clear our view that the elections (of January 5) were not a credible reflection of the will of the Bangladeshi people. Reiterating the United States’ position on January 5 elections, Mozena said that Bangladesh is responsible for ensuring its own democracy, and ‘outsiders, no matter how well intentioned, cannot do it’.
“We made clear our view that the elections (of January 5) were not a credible reflection of the will of the Bangladeshi people… Bangladesh is responsible for ensuring its own democracy,” he sai...
“We made clear our view that the elections (of January 5) were not a credible reflection of the will of the Bangladeshi people… Bangladesh is responsible for ensuring its own democracy,” he sai...
