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Published: 28 Apr 2021 08:08 AM BdST
Updated: 28 Apr 2021 08:08 AM BdST
Two anti-tobacco groups have demanded increasing prices of cigarettes and other tobacco products by imposing specific taxes in the national budget. );
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Research and advocacy organisation Knowledge for Progress or PROGGA and Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance or ATMA raised the demand in a virtual press conference on Tuesday.
They placed a set of proposals and said implementing these in the upcoming budget for 2021-22 fiscal year amid the outbreak of COVID-19, a respiratory disease, will
prevent premature deaths of nearly 390,000 adults and 400,000 younger people.
Supplementary duty, health development surcharge and VAT on cigarettes will also earn the government Tk 34 billion in additional revenues, the organisations claim.
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Smoking free environment vital for development of tourism : Speakers
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DHAKA, March 13, 2021 (BSS) – Speakers at a virtual meeting today called for ensuring hundred percent smoking free environments in hotel and restaurants for expansion of country’s tourism industry.
They observed that the existing tobacco control law needs to be amended in this regards, a press release said.
The opinion was stated at the program titled “Role of Media in Building Tobacco Free Bangladesh 2040” organized by Aviation and Tourism Journalists’ Forum of Bangladesh (ATJFB) and Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM).
DAM Tobacco Control Project Coordinator Md. Shariful Islam presented the keynote paper while ATJFB President Nadira Kiron in the chair.
Women can achieve remarkable progress in every sector: Speaker
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Chaudhury today said women can achieve remarkable progress in every sector if
they build themselves as skilled workforce through acquiring knowledge on
different disciplines of development.
professions through their capability, merit and skills,” she said at a
discussion of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) by joining virtually as chief
guest, a press release said here today.
DRU organized the programme titled “Women’s progress, barriers and
challenges in five decades,” marking International Women’s Day with its
president Morsalin Nomany in the chair.
The Speaker unveiled the cover of `Konthossor’, a special publication for