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  • Who cares lockdown?

    Staff Correspondent: There are not many signs of restraint in Dhaka on the seventeenth day of the lockdown imposed to curb the COVID pandemic.Traffic and crowds seem to have largely returned to business as usual, though law enforcers are occasionally checking vehicles on certain roads.But no one is holding mask-less…

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  • Govt committed to implement high-impact regulatory reforms

    Staff Correspondent: Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday said the government is committed to implementing high-impact regulatory reforms such as streamlining the existing company registration process and reducing administrative costs in the procedures.“The examples of Singapore and Malaysia that have shown remarkable success in simplifying the company registration process, reducing the…

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  • Ministry forms committee to decide Evaly’s future

    Staff Correspondent:The Commerce Ministry has formed a nine-member inter-ministerial committee to determine the future of controversial e-commerce platform Evaly.The committee, headed by Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh, will hold a meeting on 11 August to take decision on Evaly.Hafizur Rahman, member of the committee and additional secretary of Commerce Ministry,…

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  • 5 lakh youths to get soft skills training in 5 years

    Staff Correspondent: The government is going to provide soft skills training to 500,000 jobseekers and employees within the next five years, aiming to improve their employability skills. “The demand for soft skilled and trained people will substantially be increased over the next decades as huge jobs will be transformed by…

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  • President, PM define Bangamata’s role

    Staff Correspondent:President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday paid glowing tributes to Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, saying her ideology would always remain as a source of inspiration for Bangalee women.In separate messages on the eve of the 91th birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of…

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  • Tk 24,138 crore tax collected from LTUs

    Staff Correspondent: The income tax collection by the Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) stood at Tk 24,138 crore in the last fiscal year (FY21).Earlier, the provisional calculation showed the income tax collection by LTU Tk 24,011 crore in the last fiscal.The revenue collection status…

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  • BAPA seeks permission to allow 50pc visitors in parks

    Staff Correspondent:Mankind around the world has been helpless from the Coronavirus for more than a year. For a long time, the tourism and entertainment sector has been playing a major role in the development of the country by providing huge revenue to the government including income tax, VAT and other…

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  • Bangladesh poses huge export opportunities in Asian countries

    Special Correspondent:Bangladesh’s exports to SAARC countries have grown by 88 per cent over last few years even as experts believe there’s more opportunities for Bangladesh to exploit, after all this sub-region is now home to nearly 2.0 billion people.The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation or SAARC is an economic…

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  • No vaccine without NID, registration

    Staff Correspondent: For now, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has decided not to vaccinate anyone without a national identity card (NID) and registration.DGHS DG Professor Dr. Khurshid Alam confirmed this yesterday.He said the experimental mass vaccination activities will start on Saturday. Later, from August 14 to August 19,…

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  • Tagore’s 80th death anniversary today

    Industry Desk: The nation is set to observe the 80th death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore today recalling the great poet who did not leave any human emotion untouched in his works, especially poems and songs.The day will be observed with limited programmes considering the current coronavirus pandemic situation.Tagore died at…

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