e-Service Authority for ensuring quality soon

The government is going to introduce an e-Service Regulations soon keeping a provision to set up an e-Service Authority to create disciplined environment in electronic service (e-Service) delivery and ensure quality service to the people, top official of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry said. eserviceHe said the draft regulations titled “e-Service Regulations’2013” which is now under process to launch anytime,has been prepared as per article 88 of Information and Communica...

Small investors receding as multinational companies proliferating

Small poultry farm owners are gradually losing the ground for business to big investors in the sector, particularly the multinational investors, amid the absence of a protective mechanism by the government. The stakes of the multinational companies over the poultry sector have made a leap from 4-5 percent to 31-32 percent since 2007, while, at the same time, more than 50 percent of the country’s small poultry farm owners who have called it quits, according to insiders in the sector. poltryWhile bi...

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. DITF-2014-logo

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. From Left-Mohua Rashid, Country Manager, ACCA and Professor Dr. A A M S Arefin Siddique, VC, University of Dhaka Inaugurating ACCA Fair 2014

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. election 2Witho...

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. NBR1NBR, 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...