DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said the government expects to implement a separate child budget on pilot basis from FY 2015-16. “There are demands being raised from various quarters for separate child budget. Some concrete recommendations are there as well to make it

DHAKA: Distinguished Fellow of Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya on Thursday said it is main challenge to make a balance between national income and expenditure in the budget for the fiscal year 2014-15.  The economist came up with the observation in an

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith has proposed to increase taxes on certain daily necessary things for which price those products will increase. The products include fuel, imported mobile phone sets, tyre-tubes, luxurious vehicles, hybrid vehicles, gold, and energy saving tube lights,

FROM SANGSHAD: Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury adjourned the budget session till Sunday afternoon. The first budget of Tk 250,506 crore for the fiscal year 2014-15 of the incumbent government was proposed fixing the target of attaining a higher GDP growth of 7.3 percent. Finance

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for China on Friday on a six-day official visit at the invitation of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang. A VVIP flight of Bangladesh Biman carrying Hasina will depart from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of the city at 7.30am on

JESSORE: Two schoolgirls were killed and three other injured as a train knocked the auto-rickshaw carrying them in Sharsha upazila of the district on Thursday noon. The deceased were identified as Mahua, 13, a class-VIII student, Habiba, 12, a class-VII student of Burubagan Madimik Pilot

FENI: The rail communications of Chittagong resumed with Dhaka and Sylhet after 10-hour halt following derailment in Fazilpur upazila of the district on Thursday noon. Railway sources said that five wagons of the container-laden train from veered off the tracks as miscreants pulled off

DHAKA: Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said the government is taking initiatives to stop leasing the busses of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC). The communications minister was talking to journalists after an inter-ministerial meeting at the secretariat in

DHAKA: The cabinet meeting is underway to approve the draft of 44th Budget of the country at Jatiya Sangsad secretariat on Thursday afternoon. With Prime Minsiter Shiekh Hasina in the cahir, ministers, state ministers, secretaries are attending the meeting started at 1:00pm. BDST: 1325

COX’S BAZAR: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar held a flag meeting in Mongdu of Myanmar on Thursday morning following the tension and repeated exchange of fires along border.  A 23-member BBG delegation led-by BGB Cox’s Bazar sector commander

NAOGAON: A couple was electrocuted in Vandarpur village under Badalgachhi upazila of the district on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Abdul Hamid, 50, and his wife Ezida Begum, 40, of the village. Badalgachhi Thana Officer-In-Charge Alamgir Lenin told banglanews, “The couple

FARIDPUR: Locals blocked the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Chandibordi bus stand area of Saltha upazila of the district on Thursday demanding trial to the killing of a madrasah teacher. Villagers, poured onto the road at 10:00am of the day, blocked the highway that triggered a halt to the

DHAKA: Popular cultural personality, eminent TV presenter, writer and producer AKM Hanif Sanket got environment medal 2014. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over the medal in a programme at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in city on Thursday morning. To mark the occasion

DHAKA: In the new budget, the government is going to introduce a compulsory new provision of receiving house rent by cheque.  Every house owner must take house rent by cheque but house rent will have to be minimum Tk 25,000.  Finance Minister AMA Muhith is set to announce country’s

DHAKA: Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to reform its some systems including ticket selling and counter monitoring.   According to the new system, every counter of the railway will be asked for setting up close circuit cameras to tackle ticket blacking. Besides, in every ticket, name

DHAKA: Two people were crushed under train wheels in Khilgaon and Karwan Bazar area in city on Wednesday night. The deceased were identified as Mizanur Rahman and another one remained unidentified instantly.  Confirming the matter, Kamlapur Railway Thana Assistant Sub-Inspector Azizul

FARIDPUR: Police recovered the body of a top terror from Girastulla Matubbar Dangi area of Char Madhabdia union under Faridpur Sadar Upazila of the district on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Nayeb Ali, hailed from Boithakhali village of Sadar Upazila. Confirming the

DHAKA: Customs intelligence and airport customs officials, in a drive, seized gold bars weighing 5.6 kilograms at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early Thursday. Confirming the matter, Customs Intelligence Deputy Director Mostafizur Rahman told banglanews, “No one was detained

FENI: Rail communications on Dhaka-Chittagong-Sylhet routes halted as five bogies of a container-laden train derailed in Fazilpur after miscreants pulled off fishplates. Confirming the matter to banglanews, Fazilpur station master Rakhal Chandra said that the accident took place at

DHAKA: A teenage girl was killed in a road accident on Mirpur-Kalsi road of the city on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Pushpo, 17. Officer-in-Charge of Shahjahanpur Thana confirmed the matter to banglanews. BDST: 2220 HRS, JUN 04, 2014