Dhaka: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has further cut the tax on imports of equipment and parts used for solar power generation to 1% to facilitate the expansion of renewable energy. Under a notification issued Wednesday, importers will be exempt…
Dhaka: Election training for police personnel began on Wednesday at 114 venues across the country ahead of the local government elections, with the two-day programme aimed at enhancing their skills and capabilities to ensure their election duties with…
Dhaka: The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested two individuals allegedly involved in the bag-snatching incident that led to the death of a government primary school headteacher near the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. They cla…
Dhaka: Deputy Commissioner (Gulshan Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, M Tanvir Ahmed, and the Officer-in-Charge of Gulshan Model Police Station, Daud Hossain, have been withdrawn from their positions and reassigned to the DMP headquarters. The d…
Dhaka: Retired District Judge, freedom fighter, and three-time Election Commissioner of the Dhaka University Alumni Association, Sharif Md Lutfur Rahman, passed away on Tuesday at 6:00 pm while undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Medical University (BM…
President mirza fakhrul islam alamgir today said the country’s engineering and technology universities play a very important role in preparing world class human resources. “engineering and technology universities of the country play a very important r…
Dhaka: A court here today ordered the attachment of immovable properties worth Taka 49.61 lakh owned by economist and former chairman of the state-owned Janata Bank PLC, Prof Abul Barkat over graft charges. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md S…
Dhaka: The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a charge sheet against former law minister Advocate Anisul Huq, alleging that he acquired illegal assets worth Tk 172.24 crore. The charge sheet also includes details of suspicious and unusual tran…
Chattogram: A study conducted by a team of pediatricians in Chattogram has found that no new variant of the measles virus is responsible for the recent outbreak and spread of the disease in southern Bangladesh. Genome sequencing of measles virus sampl…