IFTEKHARUL ISLAM | 2022-09-21 00:00:00
It's 11 a.m. In a convention hall in Dhaka, there are merchandise stalls where fans can purchase merchandise from their favourite shows. Many can be seen wearing costumes, roaming around the venue and taking photos with fans. They are called...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-20 00:00:00
Rising business-operating costs have squeezed Bangladesh's job market during the last six months, after an initial rebound from pandemic shocks, in one of major marked setbacks. A trend of layoffs in private- sector jobs is evident as many of the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-20 00:00:00
The customs authority has served a show-cause notice to the BM Container Depot in a bid to suspend or cancel its licence - following eight-point findings of an investigation committee regarding varipus irregularities.The depot, among the top-five large inland container...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-09-20 00:00:00
Hostilities from the Myanmar security forces on the other side of the Bangla-desh border at Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban district have no sign of abating. Last Friday (Sept 16) a mortar shell fired by the Myanmar forces across Tumbru border...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-09-20 00:00:00
The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Switzerland, has not only been convening economic summit attended by global political leaders, business executives and social activists, but also produces reports on important socio-economic issues from time to time based on its...
Munima Sultana | 2022-09-19 00:00:00
The Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) is going to operate the metro-rail ticketing system, as the first smart card-based system will be launched for the metro-rail from Uttara to Agargaon in the capital in December.As the clearing house for operating...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-09-19 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 18: Industrial black smokes - carbon and zinc-mixed air once known as environment pollutant as chimneys of steel and other metal making factories had been emitting those regularly into the air only a decade ago, has now become...
Neil Ray | 2022-09-19 00:00:00
So, the country's rice huskers or millers have managed to bluff their ways into business. For more than one and a half decades they have been marketing rice under the fictitious brand name called 'miniket' which in reality has no...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-09-18 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) is set to introduce a new provision of determining the management fees of mutual funds (MFs) very soon.As per the latest provision, the management fees for managing MFs will be determined based on...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Bhutan have approved a transit traffic protocol that was earlier drafted to provide a transit facility to Bhutan.Sources said as Bhutan has a transit agreement with India, it can use the Bangladesh ports for export and import of...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-09-18 00:00:00
This year marks the 16 years of formal launch of the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative to support the developing and least- developed countries (LDCs) in developing their trade capacity and infrastructure. The aid is part of overall official development...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-17 12:00:00
Food security has become one of the major concerns in recent times. The prolonged Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have worsened the supply chain of food stuffs. Import-dependent countries having scarcity of agricultural lands are now looking for technology-based...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-17 12:00:00
"No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river and he is not the same man", said Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. To ordinary unthinking mortals, this is rather comical. They would scoff at...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has taken steps to deactivate more than 15 SIMs registered under one national identity (NID).The telecom regulator has identified a total of such 31,26,577 SIM cards under 7,23,923 NIDs, which will be deactivated by...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
A move is underway to integrate the Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway (DAEE) with the airport's imposing third terminal which now sees significant construction progress with the development of major infrastructures.Sources say Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) and the Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
Bangladeshi products will be transported to India on Indian container trains.After unloading their exportable items here, the trains will carry the Bangladeshi products on the return trip. The goods-carrying trains will be operated on two routes between Bangladesh and India:...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
The government is not entertaining any proposal for raising expenditures of ongoing development projects rather asking the implementing agencies to spend from their own funds, if necessary, officials say.Now walking a tightrope to weather financial crunch stemming from a global...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
Stocks slipped into the red in the outgoing week to Thursday, snapping a four-week gaining streak, as jittery investors rushed to lock in profits from large-cap issues that witnessed price surge.Of the five trading days this week, three sessions suffered...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 16: Almost 93 per cent of the construction work of 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel' under Karnaphuli river in Chattogram has been completed. Already the government appointed a Chinese company as its operator.The tunnel, built at a cost...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
Eminent economist cum historian, retired secretary, renowned academic and former adviser to the caretaker government Dr Akbar Ali Khan passed away all of a sudden on September 8, 2022, -- leaving behind a legacy that is bound to last for...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
A five-year study done by the Department of Environment (DoE) between 2013 and 2018 found that seven cities of Bangladesh-Narayanganj, Dhaka, Gazipur, Rajshahi, Chattogram, Khulna and Barishal-have the most polluted air. That the study ended four years ago does not...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-09-17 00:00:00
Garment workers, the foot soldiers of Bangladesh's economic success, have finally received some attention from the global community over the last few years thanks to their unsafe working conditions, low wages and benefits, and insufficient amenities at their factories. Worker...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-16 00:00:00
Banks are finally allowed to maintain accounts in Chinese Yuan (CNY) with their correspondents or overseas branches for cross-border transactions executed in Bangladesh, amid dollar crunch.The Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued Thursday a notification to this effect, asking all the authorised...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-16 00:00:00
The past week's rainfalls had all the making of a monsoon although this year's monsoon proper was, reportedly, the driest ever. In fact, for the past seven years now the rainy season has remained drier than before. Intriguingly, the autumn...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
People willing to bring back money home through availing the offshore tax amnesty will have to voluntarily declare the amount to the commercial banks concerned.They will also have to request the banks to consider the repatriated money under the amnesty...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
The central bank issued a policy on merchanting trade for the first time in Bangladesh to boost inflow of foreign exchange through expediting services incomes, officials said Wednesday.Under the maiden policy, traders are now free to purchase goods or services...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
The move by the University Grants Commission on ensuring that teachers of public universities, once they have completed their higher studies abroad, return to their institutions is welcome. The expectation is that the UGC and through it the public universities...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
Prior to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent four-day visit to India, one of India's leading daily the Indian Express published an editorial (September 5) with the heading "PM Sheikh Hasina in India, India must be a friend in deed". Regrettably,...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-14 00:00:00
A foreign-aided model is undertaken to cut knotty steps in import-export process, dropping less-important ones, for expediting delivery of goods out of Bangladesh's major customs ports.Sources say customs authority under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to introduce...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-14 00:00:00
A relative calm appears after the storm on Bangladesh's forex market as exchange rate for importers fell slightly Tuesday while interbank transactions also saw a revamp, bankers said. The central bank has already intensified monitoring on the foreign-exchange (forex) market...
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