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Most multinationals dodge TP law, deprive govt of due taxes

Most multinationals dodge TP law, deprive govt of due taxes

Doulot Akter Mala 2017-12-28 12:00:00

Around 85 per cent of the foreign companies operating in Bangladesh and executing international transactions hardly share their incomes with the host nation, thus allegedly contributing vastly to capi...

BD economic growth may slow to 6.9pc in FY18

BD economic growth may slow to 6.9pc in FY18

FE Report 2017-12-28 12:00:00

Bangladesh economy may grow at a slower pace of 6.9 per cent this fiscal year after a record growth of 7.28 per cent in the last fiscal, a global financial giant forecasts. The latest reckoning on th...

Rohingya rehabilitation: WB insists BD on receiving its aid

Rohingya rehabilitation: WB insists BD on receiving its aid

FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-12-28 12:00:00

The World Bank wants Bangladesh to receive an assistance it is offering for rehabilitation of Rohingyas, amid lukewarm response from the authorities concerned due to the mixed nature of the aid. WB P...

UK medical team on way to Cox's Bazar

UK medical team on way to Cox's Bazar

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

A British medical team from the UK's Emergency Medical Team (EMT) are making their way to Cox's Bazar to save thousands of lives at risk from a rapid and deadly outbreak of diphtheria. The team, incl...

BRAC Bank official goes missing

BRAC Bank official goes missing

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

A senior officer of BRAC Bank Limited remained missing since Tuesday morning. A report was filed with the Tejgaon Industrial Zone Police Station on Wednesday in this connection. The report said that...

Khaleda graft case: Court sets Jan 3, 4 for further arguments

Khaleda graft case: Court sets Jan 3, 4 for further arguments

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

A court on Thursday fixed January 3 and 4 for placing further arguments in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case filed against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Dhaka Special Co...

NBR chief to become new principal secretary

NBR chief to become new principal secretary

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

Md Nojibur Rahman, currently NBR Chairman and Senior Secretary at the Internal Resources Division, will be the new Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, said highly-placed government sources. Ra...

Mother, 2 children sustain burn injuries in Ctg cylinder blast

Mother, 2 children sustain burn injuries in Ctg cylinder blast

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

A woman and her two children sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in Garibullah Shah residential area under Khulshi thana in Chittagong on Thursday. The victims are Tanjira Aktar, 35, her...

Police remand instigator over Ctg 4 women rape

Police remand instigator over Ctg 4 women rape

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

The instigator of a rape incident of four women during a robbery at a house in Chittagong’s Karnaphuli was placed on three-day remand. Abdul Hannan alias Hannan Member, was remanded on Wednesda...

BFDC opens country’s first specialised fish market

BFDC opens country’s first specialised fish market

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 12:00:00

Bangladesh Fisheries Development Corporation (BFDC) has launched a specialised government fisheries market for the first time at Jatrabari of Dhaka on Thursday.  State Minister for Fisherie...

MPs express dismay over slow pace of HSIA's 3rd terminal construction

MPs express dismay over slow pace of HSIA's 3rd terminal construction

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism on Thursday expressed its concern over slow progress of constructing 3rd terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The committ...

Locals block Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narsingdi

Locals block Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Narsingdi

-- 2017-12-28 11:53:37

Locals blocked Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Kararchar area of Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi district on Thursday morning following a road crash that killed a woman and her minor son. Hafizur Rahman, office...

N’ganj gunfight leaves ‘robber’ dead

N’ganj gunfight leaves ‘robber’ dead

-- 2017-12-28 11:41:42

A suspected robber leader was killed in a reported gunfight with detective branch (DB) of police at Kanchan bridge area in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj on Thursday. The deceased was identified as S...

Over 50pc Padma bridge construction work ends

Over 50pc Padma bridge construction work ends

-- 2017-12-28 10:41:50

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the overall progress of the much expected Padma Bridge rose to more than 50 per cent, reports BSS. "The main construction work of the bridge ha...

DNCC evicts illegal establishments

DNCC evicts illegal establishments

-- 2017-12-28 10:28:15

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) in a mobile court drive on Thursday evicted some 200 illegal establishments and removed over 1000 banners, festoons, signboards and billboards from Farmgate area of...

BB issues show-cause notice against PCB

BB issues show-cause notice against PCB

Siddique Islam 2017-12-28 10:19:56

The central bank issued a show-cause notice against a leading private commercial bank (PCB) on Wednesday for allegedly providing misleading information on foreign exchange rate, particularly for expor...

2017 sees continuation of BNP’s ‘bad patch’   

2017 sees continuation of BNP’s ‘bad patch’  

-- 2017-12-28 09:33:00

Although BNP had a plan to stage a comeback in politics reorganising it at the grassroots level, the outgoing year - 2017 - apparently turned into another bad year for it as the party confined itself...

Diplomacy shines on bilateral front, not on geostrategic point

Diplomacy shines on bilateral front, not on geostrategic point

-- 2017-12-28 09:28:20

Dhaka remained active in various global forums strengthening bilateral ties, particularly in terms of economic cooperation, in 2017 – but has not succeeded in using its geopolitical and geostrat...

Natore road crash kills father,daughter

Natore road crash kills father,daughter

-- 2017-12-28 09:16:04

A man and his daughter died in a road accident on Thursday. The accident took place when a bus rammed their motorcycle at Bypass road in Kandivita area of Natore municipality in the afternoon. The d...

Quader for stern action over nomination infighting

Quader for stern action over nomination infighting

-- 2017-12-28 07:27:04

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that punitive action would be taken against any party man involved in nomination infighting centering the election to the Dhaka South City Corpor...

Fog forces flight operations for five hrs

Fog forces flight operations for five hrs

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 06:19:42

Flight operations remained halted for more than five hours at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. The air service disruption continued from 5:00am to 10:15am in the morning...

US embassy to remain closed Jan 1

US embassy to remain closed Jan 1

-- 2017-12-28 05:39:16

The US embassy in Dhaka, including the American Center, will remain closed on Monday on the occasion of New Year's Day, an American holiday. The embassy, including the Consular Section with the Arch...

PM slams physicians for intentional workplace absence

PM slams physicians for intentional workplace absence

BSS, UNB 2017-12-28 05:17:54

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has criticised the government physicians for their lack of willingness to stay at workplaces across the country’s remote areas. “When we appoint new doctors,...

Bumper groundnut production delights Rangpur farmers

Bumper groundnut production delights Rangpur farmers

-- 2017-12-28 04:15:32

Agriculture experts are expecting bumper production of groundnut as farmers have exceeded the fixed farming target of the cash crop by 36.72 percent during the current Rabi season in Rangpur agricultu...

Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

-- 2017-12-28 02:56:59

Google is making its voice assistant sound more like humans than robots. The company is working on a new text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2 which is essentially a neural network architecture for...

Regional Ijtema begins in Jessore

Regional Ijtema begins in Jessore

Our Correspondent 2017-12-28 02:23:42

A three-day regional Ijtema has begun in Jessore district. Mufti Abdul Bareq, Kakrail Mosque Imam, delivered the opening speech at the congregation, kicked off on Thursday morning. Thousands of Musl...

NRB Bank opens 36th branch

NRB Bank opens 36th branch

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 02:15:24

NRB Bank Limited opened its 36th branch at Kazirhat area in Zajira upazila of Shariatpur on Tuesday. BM Muzammel Haque, MP, Shariatpur-1, was present in the programme as the chief guest, says a press...

Local RMG units violate workers’ rights severely

Local RMG units violate workers’ rights severely

FE Report 2017-12-28 02:02:10

The country's local garment factories those meet mainly domestic demand are running without rules and regulations, often violating workers' rights severely, according to a new study. More than half o...

BD one of lowest Asian agri produce processors

BD one of lowest Asian agri produce processors

Yasir Wardad 2017-12-28 01:48:12

Bangladesh is one of the bottom-ranked countries in Asia in terms of processing agricultural produces that makes a strong bite on the country's export earnings from farm sector, according to a latest...

BSF picks up Bangladeshi national

BSF picks up Bangladeshi national

-- 2017-12-28 01:43:11

Border Security Force (BSF) of India picked up a Bangladesh national from Burimari border point in Lalmonirhat district on Thursday. The detainee was identified as Abdul Latif, 25, son of Rafiqul Isl...