New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Without a shift in the policy framework, inequality will remain entrenched in Bangladesh as there is still no sign of meaningful change in supporting policies in the country, a new report has stressed.The top 1 per cent now hold 24 per cent of the total wealth and pocketed 16 per cent of the national income in 2024, according to the ‘World Inequality Report’.Ahsan Habib writes in The Daily Star that in Bangladesh, the tax system remains stubbornly regressive.“The c…
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Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) Odommo Jobian Oikko, a panel backed by radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, has registered a landslide victory, securing 16 of the 21 posts – including those of Vice-President (VP), General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) – in the just-concluded Bangladesh’s Jagannath University Central Students Union (JnUCSU) elections, the local media reported on Thursday. The student wings of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chh…