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Govt to continue 2.5pc incentives on inward remittance: Kamal
05:49 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said the government will continue the 2.5 per cent incentive on inward remittance in fiscal 2022-23...
Why a Bollywood film on a popular Hindu king failed
05:18 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayIt was a film that was expected to set the box office on fire...
Inflation control is top priority in new budget: Kamal
05:02 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said in preparing the budget for the next fiscal year (FY23), top priority was given to containing inflation stemming from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war...
Tk 40000cr allocation for secondary and higher education sector
04:58 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayThe government will spend Tk 39,961 crore for the secondary and higher education sector in the fiscal year 2022-23...
Govt sets 7.5pc GDP growth target for FY23
04:37 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayThe government has fixed a 7.5 percent GDP growth target for the fiscal year 2022-23. Finance Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal said this while presenting a proposed budget of Tk 6,78,064 crore for FY 2022-23 in Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday. He said, "We hope a 7.24 percent GDP growth will be achieved at the end of the current fiscal year...
Tk 2.45 lakh cr deficit in budget 2022-23
04:10 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayThe amount of deficit in the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 will stand at Tk 2,45,064 crore which accounts for 5.05 percent of the country's total GDP...
Tk 6,78,064cr budget for FY23 placed in JS
03:20 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday placed a Taka 6,78,064 crore proposed budget for FY23 at Jatiya Sangsad considering recovery from the pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and also keeping ahead six key challenges with containing inflation as the major one.
Cabinet approves proposed budget for 2022-23 fiscal
02:44 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayThe Cabinet has approved the proposed national budget of Tk 6,78,064 crore for the 2022-23 financial year. The approval was given in a cabinet meeting at Cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Thursday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting...
Nupur Sharma, 8 others booked for allegedly spreading hate
02:26 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayDelhi Police has registered a case against eight people including former BJP members Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal for allegedly spreading hate...
3 women of a family electrocuted in N’ganj
02:16 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayThree women of a family died after being electrocuted at Deubhoug Akhra area in Narayanganj on Thursday noon...
Tipu murder: Main accused Musa brought back home
01:42 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayA team of Dhaka Metropolitan DB Police has brought Suman Sikdar alias Musa, the suspected main planner of Awami League (AL) leader Zahidul Islam Tipu murder, back home from Oman. A flight carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday morning...
Chronology of national budget of Bangladesh
12:32 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is set to place the national budget for fiscal year (2022-2023) at the Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday...
Parts of Shanghai impose new COVID lockdown measures
12:18 PM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayParts of Shanghai began imposing new lockdown restrictions on Thursday, with residents of sprawling Minhang district ordered to stay home for two days in a bid to control COVID-19 transmission risks...
Thailand legalises cannabis trade but still bans recreational use
11:02 AM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayPeople in Thailand can now grow cannabis plants at home and sell the crop after the nation removed marijuana from its banned narcotics list...
Is Russia exporting grain from Ukraine?
10:17 AM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayRussia is sending grain from Ukraine overseas, Russian-appointed officials in occupied southern Ukraine say. The claim - which the BBC has not been able to verify - comes as Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of stealing about 600,000 tonnes of its grain and exporting some of it...
Top loan defaulter RSRM group MD arrested
09:48 AM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested one of the top loan defaulters of the country Maksudur Rahman from Gulshan area in Dhaka on Wednesday night...
Mexican megachurch leader gets more than 16 years for abuse
08:56 AM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayThe leader of the Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo was sentenced Wednesday to more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young female followers who said he made them his sex slaves...
Severodonetsk: Zelensky ties fate of east Ukraine to battle for city
08:35 AM, 09 Jun 2022 ThursdayUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that fighting for the city of Severodonetsk may decide the outcome of the war in the east of the country. "In many respects, the fate of the Donbas is being decided there," he said as combat raged in the industrial belt with Russian and separatist forces...
Over 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to WHO
10:03 PM, 08 Jun 2022 WednesdayThere have been more than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to the World Health Organization in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa where it more commonly spreads...
Kangana falls for spoof video, calls Qatar Airways chief "idiot of a man"
09:53 PM, 08 Jun 2022 WednesdayActor Kangana Ranaut, who is known to make headlines for her controversial remarks, today made another embarrassing gaffe calling Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker an "idiot of a man" based on a parody video clip...