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Making most of inland waterways

The ministry of shipping (MoS) has once again urged businesspeople to make good use of the waterways between the Chittagong Port and Pangaon Container Terminal at Keraniganj, Dhaka. It is intriguing why the ministry or anyone else should time and again extol the merit of the inland waterways for transportation...

Bangladesh talks of FTAs, but signs none

Since long, we have been hearing that Bangladesh is negotiating Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with such and such countries. These countries include Sri Lanka, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, and also China, but ironically till now, it signed none. What has kept Bangladesh at bay when it comes to the signing of...

Is road safety a distant dream?

The Road Transport Bill, 2018, the draft of which was approved by the government a couple of months ago, will be placed in parliament in its next session, which is scheduled to begin on September 10. If passed into law, it will replace the existing Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1983. The...

Increasing tax revenue is necessary

It is indeed unfortunate and shameful that in a country of 160 million people, only 2.8 million people have Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) or actually pay taxes. A prime reason behind lower rate of taxes being paid is corruption. Bangladesh has the lowest Tax-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio in this...

Improving Biman's services

It was recently announced that Biman Bangladesh Airlines has added a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, an advanced passenger jet, to its fleet. Biman now has nine modern jets from Boeing. This latest addition is hopefully going to increase demand for Biman's tickets both locally and internationally. The national flagship carrier has...

Casualties of reckless driving

Police sub-inspector Uttam Kumar Sarkar of Rupnagar police station died on the spot after he was run over by a bus near Rainkhola intersection in Mirpur, Dhaka on September 02. There were several other road accidents across the country over the past two weeks. It seems that there has been...