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BDR to be renamed, restructured
Staff Reporter
The committee on restructuring the embattled BDR yesterday submitted its partial report to the coordination body with a set of recommendations, including ten possible names, new logo and mottoes for a re-born border force.
The committee in its partial report submitted also suggested new uniform, Commerce Minister Faruk Khan told after a meeting of the committee in the BDR headquarters yesterday. The committee was formed following the mutiny by BDR.
Faruk said a new name of the mutiny-mauled Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) would be selected from the proposed ten.  |
Budget must have short-term solution to power, gas crises: Muhit’s comment against tax holiday irresponsible: JS body chairman
UNB, Dhaka
Business leaders at a pre-budget meet yesterday urged the government to continue the 'tax holiday' scheme for proper industrialization, as Finance Minister AMA Muhith just a couple of days back unveiled a plan for phasing out this facility for the benefit of various sectors.
Responding to the plea from the businesses, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Ministry AHM Mostafa Kamal (Lotus Kamal) said he does not think that the government will do away with the tax breaks.
"I don't think that the government will do away with the tax-holiday facilities. |
Textbooks to be printed in districts: PM UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced that textbooks will now be printed at district level and distributed among the students by local authorities, as the present book-supply procedure creates perennial problems.
Under another major step in the education sector, government high schools will be established in every upazila of the country and quality education will be ensured in these schools.
The Prime Minister disclosed the plans when a six-member delegation of the University Grants Commission (UGC) led by its chairman Prof. |
Wildcat strike at Ctg Port: Loading, unloading remains suspended
Chittagong Bureau
Lightering services from the mother vessels at the outer anchorage of Chittagong maritime port have reportedly been suspended following a wildcat strike of the warehouse workers and the porters yesterday afternoon.
Dozens of lighter vessels laden with cargos at different jetties at Sadarghat, Majhirghat and Banglabazar are now on the queue to let their hatch be cleared.
Unloading of the cargo from 35 mother vessels now stranded at the outer anchorage of the maritime port has also been halted following the work abstention by the porters. |
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Internet Edition. May 20, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
