Box:     Total outlay                 Tk 1,32,170 Cr             Revenue Income         Tk    92,847 Cr            Revenue Expenditure  Tk   93,670 Cr            Deficit                          Tk   

Dhaka: Undertaking newer schemes for the farm-sector development, the government proposed a total budgetary allocation of Tk 7,492 crore for the agriculture sector- both development and non-development combined-- for the FY 2010-11 with a subsidy of Tk 4,000 crore.While unveiling the

DHAKA: The government proposed to raise the prices of both cars and their fuel in the 2010-11 financial year, commencing next month, as a monetary measure to ease the ever-increasing traffic jam in the capital city.Finance Minister AMA Muhith made the twin-proposal to raise the price of

Dhaka: A proposal to allocate Tk 61.15 billion, 61.5 percent higher than the revised budget in energy and power sector, has been made for the 2010-11 fiscal year as the field is in urgent need of huge funds for tapping fuels.Finance Minister AMA Muhith in his budget announcement on

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith took exception to the state of country’s media and said the standard of professionalism in the field fell short of expectations. “At times, the level of professionalism in this field falls short of expectations and I feel saddened at the lukewarm

DHAKA:  The High Court Thursday reprimanded Jahangirnagar University Vice- chancellor Sharif Enamul Karim for blurting out “irresponsible comment” and disclosing the name of a victim of sexual harassment.The VC got the stick as he along with varsity Registrar Abu Bakr Siddique

Comilla: Two people were killed and four injured as a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Homna road in Baldarampur area Thursday.Witnesses said a Dhaka-bound bus from Homna crashed into the auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction at about 11:30am, killing the two on

DHAKA: Industries Minister Dilip Barua Thursday urged local entrepreneurs to come forward for flourishing homegrown industrial enterprises to build an industrially developed Bangladesh.The minister made the call while inaugurating an industrial promotion exhibition styled ‘Amar Ponya

DHAKA: Four people, including a police ASI of Pallabi thana, were wounded by bullet in separate encounters in Kadamtali and Pallabi areas of the capital early Thursday.  Official sources said Kadamtali police, taking an arrested “miscreant” named Gopal with them, went to Shyampur

DHAKA: To the cheers of Amar Desh journalists, the High Court Thursday stayed for three months the government decision canceling the declaration of the Bengali daily. As the legal bar is lifted, the newspaper is likely to go on print Thursday, its City Editor Syed Abdal Ahmed told

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith is to table the new national budget in parliament in few hours, likely with a total outlay of Tk 132,000 crore—a substantial quantum of the money could be reckoned as deficit finance.This will be the 39th National Budget of the country and 2nd for the

Comilla: At least 17 minority people were injured and their dwellings damaged in an attack by neighbours at Adda village in Barura upazila on Wednesday night.Police and witnesses said Kalpana Das, wife of Gouranga Das of the village, had an altercation with neighbour Ohab Ali on Wednesday

DHAKA: A gang of bandits masquerading as minibus passengers fired on police patrols and fled after a long chase from Joydevpur into capital’s Merul Badda area early Wednesday, leaving two wounded. Police said an Ansar member of the patrol team and a Baridhara DIT project’s security

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith is to table the national budget for 2010-11 financial year today, likely with a total outlay of Tk 132,000 crore.This will be the 39th National Budget of the country and the 2nd for the ruling Awami League.“The budget would focus on five major areas -

Dhaka: Former adviser of the caretaker government Hafiz Uddin Khan said the local government ministry is “too much political” as it is evident that its activities reflect the thoughts and actions of the ruling party. Khan made the observations while speaking at a seminar dubbed

Chittagong: BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury MP Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission has prepared a list of 55,000 voters without photograph in Chittagong for the forthcoming city corporation elections. “The list has been prepared in a planned way to

DHAKA: The High Court Wednesday asked the officers-in–Charge of six police stations in the capital to visit the banks of the River Buriganga once a day to prevent dumping of wastages in the river. A HC bench compressing justice Mohammad Momtaz Uddin Ahmed and justice Naima Haider passed

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League branded BNP Chairperson Begam khaleda Zia’s presentation of shadow budget outside parliament as “anti-constitutional and anti-democratic”. “As per the Constitution, the budget proposals are to be placed only in parliament,” AL General Secretary

DHAKA: In the wake of a stoked-up fear of house fires in the capital, a fire broke out at the posh “Prince Plaza” shopping mall in Sobhanbagh area on Wednesday afternoonFire Brigade sources said the fire broke out as a generator on the basement of the multistoried market blasted at

DHAKA: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast that Bangladesh may achieve 6 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the upcoming 2010-11 fiscal year, scaling down a more upward-looking government target. “With more supportive external conditions anticipated in FY 2010-11,