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Big budget with huge deficit proposed
The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Thursday announced the proposed national budget for fiscal 2012-13 with a total outlay of Tk 1,91,738 crore, offering wide opportunities for whitening black money ahead of the next general elections. The 79-year old finance minister while... Full story
Tk 12,600cr sought for power, energy subsidy
The government, in its budget proposals, on Thursday requested parliament to set aside Tk 12,600 crore as subsidy for power and energy sector for fiscal 2012-13, down from Tk 15,000 crore of the last fiscal. Presenting the government’s budget... Full story
Interest payment to eat up lion’s share of budget
The country’s interest payment is swelling every year as the proposed budget for the next fiscal year showed that 12.20 per cent of the total expenditure would go for interest payment. Full story
Euro football fiesta begins today
Poland get the honour of opening Euro 2012 today against surprise 2004 winners Greece but it would take a major upset to see either team or co-hosts Ukraine progress as far as the July 1 final in Kiev. Full story
No district budget yet
The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, failed to chalk up district budget while presenting the proposed budget for the next 2012-13 financial year on Thursday. Muhith while presenting the proposed budget before the parliament said... Full story
METRO
Woman strangled in city
Unidentified assailants strangled a woman, tying up her mother in their Topkhana Road residence at Segunbagicha in the capital Tuesday night. The incident came to light when the victim’s mother could untie her hands and scream out for help on early Thursday. Full story
BUSINESS
Muhith sets high GDP growth target of 7.2pc
The finance minister, AMA Muhith, projected an ambitious 7.2 per cent growth of the country’s gross domestic products in the proposed budget for the FY2012-13 although the government’s target to achieve... Full story
INTERNATIONAL
US losing patience with Pakistan, says Panetta
The defence secretary, Leon Panetta, said on Thursday the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country offered to insurgents in neighbouring Afghanistan. Full story
SPORTS
Greeks out to bring some rare cheer
Greece are aiming to give their hard-pressed compatriots back home a rare moment of cheer here today when they take on co-hosts Poland in the opening match of Euro 2012. The Greeks have as a national squad been left largely untouched by the... Full story
EDITORIAL
Titas MD’s ‘advice’ indicates apathy to people’s misery
GOVERNMENT officials and ministers appear to have made it a pastime... Full story
OP-ED
Changing schools: what does it mean?
EVERY society promotes and rewards change. Daily newspapers routinely report new technological advances. Our newly purchased computers become second hand within months as more sophisticated... Full story
TIMEOUT
Chitrangada staged as poetic drama
Tagore’s masterpiece Chitrangada, written by the Nobel Laureate in poetic drama format in 1892, was staged by Swapnadal at the Studio Theatre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Wednesday. Chitrangada that upholds the fact that the beauty... Full story
LETTERS
Energy adviser owes an apology
IT IS possible only in Bangladesh to accuse people of being ‘anti-state’ just not for agreeing with the government and for being critical of their faulty and failed projects, especially if those projects are the... Full story
