‘Revise tax on mobile services, handsets’

Telecom operators as well as smartphone traders urged the government to reconsider the proposed duty on the industry as this would put pressure on customers for paying additional regulatory expenses.Imposition of 10 percent supplementary duty on mobile uses and smartphones would severely affect the industry as those would result in hike of services as well as devices of telecom industry.The mobile phone users have already started to witness the outcome of the proposed hike of supplementary duty to 10 percent from 5 percent and it would also increase the cost of digital services, they added.Speakers at two separate programmes made the save views on Wednesday.The Telecom Reporters’ Network Bangladesh (TRNB) organized a roundtable discussion on “Proposed Budget: Reality in Telecom Sector” at a city hotel with Mohiuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumer Association (BMPCA) in the chair.Bangladesh Mobilephone Baboshayee Association (BMBA) in a separate m...

Mahtabur Rahman re-elected Chairman of NRB Bank

Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman has been re-elected chairman of the Board of Directors of NRB Bank Limited. The Board of Directors re-elected him Chairman of the Bank in its meeting held recently.Rahman, a seasoned businessman and well versed in a broad range of trade ventures around the world hails from Sylhet, said a press release.Born in 1958, he completed his education and pursued with passion his traditional family-owned business, which was established in Makkah, Saudi Arabia in 1970. He mastered ...

Stocks witness up on large-cap vibe

Stocks on Wednesday witnessed upward trend as major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges were found rising with higher activities of some large-cap securities. The rising major sectors were insurance...

Upgrade of Dhaka-Sylhet rail line demanded

Sylheti students living in the capital demanded repair of Dhaka-Sylhet rail line and introduction of non-stop train service on the line.They raised the demand from a human chain formed in front of National Museum in the capital on Wednesday.Jalalabad Chhatra Kalyan Samity, a platform of Sylheti students of Dhaka University, arranged the programme to press home their five-point demand. The other demands include four-lane Dhaka-Sylhet rail line, and compensation to the victims of Kulaura train accident.Alongside the students of Dhaka University, the Sylheti students who are studying in different other educational institutes in the capital also joined the human chain.President of Jalalabad Chhatra Kalyan Samity Md Shahriar presided over the progrmame and placed the five-pint demand, while its...

PM receives treatment at NIOH

Neesham’s 97 propels NZ to 237

A brilliant unbeaten innings from New Zealand all-rounder James Neesham helped his team have a great recovery and post a modest total against Pakistan in their World Cup group stage match on Wednesday. Thanks to Nesham’s 97 off 112 balls, the Black Caps were able to post a challenging 237 for six on the board after Pakistan bowlers had run riot early on at Birmingham.The Pakistan opening bowlers asserted their dominance with some fine seam bowling early on. The Kiwis lost four wickets inside 13 overs before captain Kane Williamson stood guard. Williamson hit 41 before he fell to Shadab Khan with the score on 83 for 5. From that point onwards, it was Neesham's day. He put together a 132-run partnership with Colin Grandhomme for the sixth wicket. Grandhomme fell after scoring 64 at the death end of the innings following a run out. Some big hits from Neesham, with the last ball also going for six of Wahab Riaz saw New Zealand reach 237. Earlier Shaheen Shah bagged three wickets for Pakistan.Pakistan new ball bowlers made early inroads into the New Zealand batting line-up as Kiwis slumped to four down inside 15 overs at a pitch providing some seam movement.Mohammad Hafeez opened the bowling from one end with Mohammad Amir bowling the second over. Amir bagged Martin Guptill in the first ball of his first over as the batsman dragged one back on to his stumps.It was the Shaheen Shah Afridi show after that as he removed Colin Munro, Ross Taylor and Tom Latham in a fiery spell of pace bowling. Kiwi captain Kane Williamson is still battling it out patiently with James Neesh...

Substandard food products

Ramadan has come and gone but the reports of substandard food products still arise from time to time. It is not as if the standard or quality of food products made in Bangladesh deteriorate from time ...

Modern port infrastructure

It is high time that our maritime ports are modernized and brought up to international standards. The Ministry of Shipping has recently signed an agreement for the current fiscal year in order to develop the ports in our country. The agreement was si...

Ban on carrying liquid substances at HSIA

SpiceJet to operate flights from Dhaka to Mumbai, New Delhi

Launch service resumes in Rangamati bringing tourists