Crackdown on teen gangs to go nationwide
Police have been ordered to widen operations against teen gangs beyond Dhaka and into districts across the country, following a run of violent property seizures in the capital and two killings of teenagers in as many weeks.
After jute, India seeks anti-dumping duty on PET film
India's Directorate General of Trade Remedies has recommended anti-dumping duties on PET film imported from Bangladesh, China and Thailand, in a finding dated September 29. For Bangladesh it is the second such recommendation in a matter of days.
Quarterly monetary policy: Is caution enough?
Bangladesh Bank's move to quarterly monetary policy statements, replacing the half-yearly cycle, gives the central bank more frequent opportunities to adjust course. The first statement under the new schedule holds the repo rate at 9.5 percent, a choice that is defensible on the inflation numbers…
Tax on microsavings interest worries MFIs
Field offices of the National Board of Revenue have begun collecting 10 percent tax on interest paid on microsavings, along with a 2 percent fine for non-compliance, citing the Income Tax Act 2023. Microfinance institutions say the measure falls on precisely the savers the government says it wants…
Turkish Airlines eyes three more Dhaka flights
Turkish Airlines wants to add three weekly flights on the Dhaka-Istanbul route, taking its schedule from seven services a week to ten, under a proposal put to the government at a meeting in the Secretariat.
When we become the people in Manna Dey’s ‘Coffee House’
There is a particular kind of recognition that arrives late. You hear a song for years without it meaning much, and then one afternoon you look up at the people around a table and realise the song has been describing you the whole time.
‘The removal of my films was almost certainly a politico-ideological decision’: Tanvir Mokammel
Filmmaker Tanvir Mokammel says the removal of two of his films from Biman Bangladesh Airlines' in-flight catalogue was almost certainly a politico-ideological decision, and that he was given no notice before it happened.
‘Acting lets me live many lives’
Intekhab Dinar has been working steadily across television, film and the stage for long enough to have a settled view of why he keeps doing it. Acting, he says, lets him live many lives, trying on characters he would never otherwise encounter within a single lifetime.
Your parents are getting old and you’re running out of time
There is a point at which you notice your parents have become careful on stairs. Nothing announces it. You simply register that a hand has gone to the banister where it never used to, and something rearranges itself.
How much caffeine is too much? A dietitian weighs in
Most people drinking three or four cups of coffee a day are within safe limits. The problems tend to come from timing and from drinks whose caffeine content is easy to underestimate.
