FE Report
Businesspeople of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka agreed in Dhaka Saturday to foster greater tie-ups for expanding bilateral trade and investment under a revamped Look East Policy following latest business pacts.
Top leaders from the business front welcomed the move of the two governments for signing Free Trade Agreement (FTA), agreed upon during a three-day visit [...]

Increased profits netted by major commercial banks and big companies yielded higher revenues for government exchequer by over 7.0 per cent in the immediate-past fiscal.
Officials said the corporate-tax collection by the Large Taxpayers Unit (LTU) under income tax wing of the National Board of Revenues (NBR) marked a fair growth in the just-concluded fiscal year [...]

Shares of Facebook, which have risen nearly 40 per cent since the start of 2017, continue to gain altitude. Expectations of strong second-quarter earnings, to be announced at the end of the month, helped drive the stock to an all-time high on Friday.
That surge has further padded the net worth of Mark Zuckerberg, the social [...]

SYLHET, July 15 (UNB): The authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology expelled today four activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for assaulting two journalists who had protested sexual harassment of a schoolgirl.
The decision was taken during a syndicate meeting of the university, said SUST registrar Md Ishfakul Hossain.
The four students are Mahmudul Hasan [...]

FE Report
Terming recent transfer of Election Commission (EC) officials unacceptable, Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan), a civil society platform for good governance, on Saturday said the move was a clear violation of law and decision of a superior court.
Recently, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the EC Secretary, avoiding the Commission, have taken some important decisions [...]

With the rise of water level in Brahmaputra River, erosion has taken serious turn in Goghat area under Kamarjani union of Gaibandha Sadar Upazila in recent days.
According to sources, due to the rise of the water level in last few days the river intensified its erosion in Goghat and its neighboring areas of the union [...]

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested an alleged drug pedlar along with 1,800 pieces of Yaba tablets from PTI slum area of the Chapainawabganj district town on Friday afternoon.
The arrestee was identified as Jasim Uddin, 28, son of Aynal Haque.
On secret information, a team of RAB led by A K M [...]

An old man was killed and 10 other people were injured following a head-on collision between a truck and a bus on Bogra-Rangpur Highway in Sadar upazila on Friday.
The deceased could not be identified yet.
Sub-inspector of Fulbari Town Police camp Rabiul Islam said the Dhaka-bound bus from Rangpur collided with the truck from the opposite [...]

An Indian student has been found dead in a bloodied state at a home in Chittagong’s Akbar Shah locality.
Another Indian student, the deceased’s roommate, has been admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital or CMCH with injuries.
Both were students of the University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC), the police say.
They have identified the deceased as [...]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has regretted the delay in enforcement of new VAT law and called into question "the determination to persevere with needed structural reforms" essential for transforming Bangladesh into middle-income status.
The government eventually put in abeyance execution of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and Supplementary Duty Act 2012 for two more years [...]