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NBR has no plan to extend time for filing returns

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will keep open its income tax department during the weekends -- Friday and Saturday -- to help tax payers file returns before the deadline expires on October 31. The move has been taken with a view to removing the confusion about any further extension of submission of income tax returns, said a hi . . . . . . Read Full Story

Small power plant project to go thru’ yet another restructuring

The government will restructure its Small Power Plant (SPP) project to bring transparency in the selection process of the sponsors process, reports UNB. According to an informed source, the Power Ministry has already made a move following World Bank (WB) "pressure" for doing it, all over again, to ensure transparency in the selecti . . . . . . Read Full Story

HEADLINE

Small power plant project to go thru’ yet another restructuring

The government will restructure its Small Power Plant (SPP) project to bring transparency in the sel

NBR has no plan to extend time for filing returns

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will keep open its income tax department during the weekends --

Salvaging the handloom sector from ruins

Handloom industry that does otherwise provide to the millions of the countrymen is now in a deplorab

POLITICS & POLICIES

SAARC summit programmes finalised

Tarique Rahman, eldest son of slain President Ziaur Rahman, will receive the first SAARC Award on be

Unite to put an end to tyrant, wholesale corrupt govt: Dr Kamal

Lambasting the coalition government for its freestyle and wholesale corruption that put the country

We can forgive, but not forget history of 1971, Hasina tells Pak Envoy

Newly-appointed Pakistani High Commissioner Alamgir Babor made a courtesy call on Leader of the Oppo

METRO & COUNTRY

Small, cottages industries witness moderate growth in 2004-05 fiscal

Small and cottage industries sector witnessed a moderate growth during the last fiscal as some 18,66

Affluent people urged to come forward to serve cause of humanity

Zubaida Rahman, a physician and social worker, urged the affluent section of the society to come for

HC stays BB show-causes on UCBL MD, secy for 3 months

The High Court (HC) stayed for three months the show-cause notices issued by the Bangladesh Bank (BB

VIEWS & REVIEWS

Fed's Greenspan made himself an economic oracle

ALAN Greenspan became one of the most visible architects of U.S. economic policy in recent history,

India's central bank tightens policy, raises growth forecast

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened a key money market interest rate in an effort to head

New German government faces euro35 billion budget shortfall, parties say

Germany could have a new chancellor on November 22 -- more than two months after inconclusive parlia

EDITORIAL

Coping with the gas crisis

It is apparent that the country is going through a crisis in the supply of gas. The average daily co

Globalising South Asia

FOREIGN Minister M Morshed Khan is fully confident that the Summit of the South Asian Association fo

Customs and illicit trade

THE provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flor

LETTER TO EDITOR

Issues of reconditioned and new cars

A lobby is there who say that substantial reduction of duty on the import of new cars could mean im

Healthy habits

MANY people are in the habit of gulping down medicines regularly. The taking of medicine for them

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

Feasibility study on to open up Ashuganj River Port for direct entry of Indian cargo vessels

The government is conducting a feasibility study to look into the possibility of opening up the Ashu

IBBL adjudged Best Bank of Bangladesh for 2005

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has achieved the Best Bank in Bangladesh Award for the year 20

SINGER continues to help change fate of unemployed women

SINGER, a multinational company, has been providing training to some 2000 underprivileged women ever

COMPANIES & FINANCE

EU trade chief gets green light for new farm offer

BRUSSELS, Oct 26 (Reuters): Europe's trade commissioner yesterday won full support from Brussels to

EU cannot be just a free trade area, says Chirac

PARIS, Oct 26 (AFP): France will never allow the European Union to be "reduced to nothing more than

European firms seek southern Africa deals

PORT LOUIS, Oct 26 (Reuters): Attracted by low costs and a Europe-friendly time zone, European firms

MARKET & COMMODITIES

China says no plan to widen yuan-dollar trading band this year

SHANGHAI, Oct 26 (AFP): China will not widen the yuan trading band against the US dollar this year a

Dollar steadies after losses on consumer confidence data

TOKYO, Oct 26 (AFP): The dollar was firmer against other major currencies in Asian trade today after

Asia rubber markets ease but tyre makers build stocks

JAKARTA, Oct 26 (Reuters): Asia's rubber markets saw new inquiries from tyre makers but with Tokyo f

SPORTS

England cricket team arrive in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 (AFP): England's cricket team finally flew into Pakistan early Wednesday for a 58-

BCB jt. secy, media chairman resigns

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Joint Secretary Reazuddin-Al-Mamun tendered his resignation Wednesday

CAB defeat BCB U-17

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Under-17 lost to Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), India, Under-17

WORLD

Shoot orders given as India's troubled Bihar state votes again

PATNA, (India), Oct 26 (AFP): Paramilitary troops shot dead a man in a scuffle near a voting booth W

Israel should be 'wiped off the map': Iranian president

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (AFP): Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday openly called for Isra

Donors talk while Pakistani quake survivors cry for help

MUZAFFARABAD, (Pakistan), Oct 26: As international donors met in Geneva Wednesday to mull their resp

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