Brother of AL councillor candidate hacked dead in Jhenidah Star Online Report Star Online Report
The brother of an Awami League councillor candidate was hacked to death by rivals in Jhenidah s Shailakupa upazila last night.
The deceased was identified as Boltu Hossain, 50, younger brother of Shawkat Hossain, councillor candidate for ward 8 in the upcoming Shailakupa municipality election, said Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Shailakupa Police Station.
OC Jahangir Alam said a group of supporters of another councillor candidate Alamgir Hossain swooped on Boltu when he was in the election campaign office of his brother Shawkat in Kabirpur area around 7:00pm.
The attackers assaulted Boltu with lethal weapons, leaving him critically injured, our Jhenidah correspondent reports quoting the OC.
Unauthorised, uncontrolled
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Alamgir Hossain was fixing pieces of elastic thread to surgical masks using a heat pressing device inside a barely hundred square feet room in the Balurmath area of Kamrangirchar.
The way the 35-year-old was going about his job inside that dingy room was anything but hygienic he was not wearing any gloves or mask. His wife and their two children, also without any protective gear, were seen putting the finished products inside a sack.
The value of the venom is worth around Tk 75 crore, he added.
During primary interrogation, the arrestees admitted that they used to collect the venom from different areas to supply to a specific ring, the officials said, adding filing of a case is underway in this regard.
According to different law enforcement agencies, the smugglers were using Bangladesh as a route to smuggle the venom into Indonesia and Malaysia and some other countries.
Snake venom is used in Asian traditional medicine.
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The final demonstration of online return filing modules was likely to be held next February, Hossain said.
The online return filing facility is now suspended in all but one tax zone because of some technical glitches in the system.
Md Jahangir Alam, CEO of the organisation, said they were ready to extend all-out cooperation to the ERF members on filling up their tax returns and other tax-related services. We are ready to provide free-of-cost services to the ERF members on tax matters, said Alam, who is also a tax lawyer.
He said the organisation was working to develop a culture and build awareness on payment of taxes.
NBR mulling for mandatory tax return submission for all salaried taxpayers
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DHAKA, Dec 19, 2020 (BSS) – The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is exploring possibility to make online tax return submission mandatory for all salaried taxpayers from next year, said a senior tax official today.
“It is also considering bringing down the rates of withholding tax or tax at source in the budget for upcoming Fiscal Year,” said Md Alamgir Hossain, income tax policy member of the NBR.
Speaking at a workshop on tax return filing at the Economic Reporters Forum (ERF) office, he said the final demonstration of online return filing modules is likely to be held in February next.