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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...

Indefinite strike called in garments factories

Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee has called an indefinite strike in the garment factories across the country starting Thursday.

The strike was called after the agitating workers were evicted from the factory at North Badda in the capital this afternoon. The law enforcers stormed the premises around 1:00 pm and  lobbed tear gas canisters and charged batons on the agitating  workers.

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Writ to ban Indian satellite channels

A writ petition has been filed to stop transmission of Indian satellite television channels in Bangladesh. Supreme Court lawyer Shaheen Ara Laili lodged the petition today. high courtThe writ named the Information Ministry as one of the respondents. The petitioner’s lawyer Eklas Uddin Bhuiyan on Sunday sent notice to information minister, secretary to the information ministry, and chairman of Bangladesh ...

Warsi quits  protesting British policy over Gaza  

Baroness Warsi, the senior Foreign Office minister, has resigned from the government in protest at its policy on Gaza, describing it as “morally indefensible”. Warsi announced her departure on Twitter yesterday, saying: “With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on Gaza.” In her resignation letter, Warsi said the government’s “approach and language during the current crisis in Gaza is morally indefensible, is not in Britain’s national interest and will have a long term detrimental impact on our reputation internationally and domestically”.

Record $ 1.48b remittance in July  

Migrant workers last month sent home $1.48 billion, the highest inflow of remittance in a single month in Bangladesh’s history. The record flow of remittance could be attributed to celebrations of Eid-ul-Fitr in the last week of July, the country’s biggest festival. The amount is 15.19 percent higher than in the previous month and 19.67 percent from July last year, the central bank said in a statement yesterday. remittanceLast month’s receipts surpassed October 2012’s $1.45 billion, the highest for a single month previously, reports ...

Cabinet okays draft national broadcast policy  

The cabinet yesterday approved the National Broadcast Policy-2014, keeping numerous scopes for the government to misuse the policy in the name of maintaining standard of news, programmes and advertisements in the electronic media. Once in force, all contents of radio and television will come under strict government monitoring. False, discriminatory and misleading information and statistics must be avoided in news and programmes, according to the draft policy. mediaMedia professionals and experts oppose any policy that may curb independence of the mass m...
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