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STAR DAY at a GLANCE | 1st June, 2017

1 June 2017, 10:36 AM
UPDATED 1 June 2017, 22:00 PM
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Holding pitchers upside down symbolising a scarcity of water, residents of Mirhazirbagh in Jatrabari demonstrate blocking a portion of a road in the area yesterday. The residents took to the streets for nearly an hour demanding supply of water. The water crisis has turned acute in many parts of the capital making lives of dwellers a sheer misery. Photo: Sk Enamul Haq

Good evening readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines on June 1, 2017 

BUDGET FY 2017-18

  1. ‘Ambitious’ budget focused on VAT
  2. Bogus budget: Khaleda
  3. Keeping money in bank to cost more
  4. 12kms flyover for Dhaka dwellers
  5. Budget fails to meet expectations: FBCCI president
  6. Govt continues to encourage LPG use
  7. Mobile handsets to be costlier
  8. VAT-free turnover limit to be Tk 36 lakh
  9. Uniform VAT to be 15%
  10. Budget won’t protect poor: CPB
  11. Allocation to tackle terrorism, graft unclear: B Chowdhury
  12. Budget 2017-18 in pie charts
  13. VAT to be imposed on English medium schools only
  14. Inflation rate to remain stable: Muhith
  15. Boost for haor, coastal regions
  16. Corporate tax remains unchanged
  17. Tax-exempted income threshold stays at Tk 2.50 lakh
  18. Incentive planned for leather industry
  19. Regular taxpayers ‘Kor Bahadurs’
  20. Prices up, prices down
  21. Gross investment in power & energy
  22. Double budget allocation in ICT
  23. Green RMGs to get tax benefits
  24. Social security net widened
  25. Budget 2017-18: Education gets a boost
  26. E-cigarette to cost more, much more
  27. Muhith seeks to double excise duty on airline tickets
  28. Cabinet okays national budget for FY 2017-18
  29. Budget deficit one-fourth of total expense
  30. Nat’l highway to get 4 lanes with separate way for slow vehicles
  31. Local software VAT free, imported one to be costlier
  32. Govt sets 7.4% GDP growth target
  33. Budget brings no good for people: Fakhrul 

National

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  1. Freedom fighter stabbed dead in Dhaka
  2. 16th amendment: SC verdict on appeal any day
  3. Abducted medical officer Iqbal found alive in Laxmipur
  4. 33 cyclone survivors handed over to Bangladesh

 

World

  1. Babies among 44 migrants die of 'thirst' in Niger desert
  2. Malaysia Airline passenger just out of psychiatric care
  3. Mexican to market 'Trump' toilet paper
  4. NASA probe to fly into sun's atmosphere
  5. Global outrage after 'barbaric' Kabul truck bomb kills 90
  6. Trump admin approves tougher visa vetting
  7. Philippine military airstrikes kill 10 troops: defence chief
  8. Australia stands by Afghanistan after attack

 

Sports

  1. Sabbir sends back Hales for 95, England 165/2

 
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