NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-09-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 13: The businessmen of Chattogram have declared that if the government does not withdraw the load control stations (LCS), set up on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in June 2018, within next one month, they would take a tough stance. As...
Morium Kulsum | 2022-09-14 00:00:00
Swimming is an excellent full-body exercise that has many physical and mental health benefits. Doctors recommend this exercise because it works your entire body and builds muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness. Besides burning calories, swimming is also becoming popular among...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-13 00:00:00
The troubled BRT project may take one more week to resume its field work that remained suspended since the tragic accident at Uttara site on August 15, leaving five members of a family dead.Restarting the field works will be delayed...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-13 00:00:00
Volatility on the foreign-exchange market rather exacerbated after banks introduced uniform exchange rates as the Bangladesh taka depreciated further against the US dollar Monday under the latest experiment. The local currency lost its value by Tk 1.0 on the interbank...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-09-13 00:00:00
Modern monarchy is a contradiction in terms. British monarchy in that sense should be an oxymoron. But the outpouring of love and respect that the people of Britain have shown at the death of Queen Elizabeth II is remarkable. What...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-09-12 00:00:00
The country's micro-finance institutions (MFIs) can lend to or borrow from other MFIs. In this regard, the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) has recently issued guidelines, titled 'Policy on Financing of Microcredit Institutions by Microcredit Institutions, 2022', in a bid to...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh's top bankers agree to set uniform rates in foreign-exchange dealings to help restore stability on the country's forex market, with Tk 108 cap per dollar for remittance netting.Under the decisions reached with the regulator, all the authorized dealer (AD)...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-12 00:00:00
The 6.15-km-long Padma Bridge, opened two and a half months back, still has over 500 major and minor faults, which have to be addressed and repaired to make it an international-standard one in 'true sense'.Sources close to the construction supervision...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-12 00:00:00
When 364 students commit suicide in just eight months, it unfolds a nightmarish spectre before the country ---one that is on way to graduating for a developing nation. Is not it a mind-boggling reality that apart from 45 students committing...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-09-11 00:00:00
Summit Communications Ltd. is set to mobilise a loan of Tk 7.0 billion to implement its investment plan on expanding network capacities, improving existing facilities, and building submarine cable networks. The country's leading telecommunication infrastructure company will arrange the loan...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-11 00:00:00
The government is forming a separate company to be dedicated exclusively for looking after the operation and maintenance (O&M) work of the Padma Bridge.The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has already registered the name, Padma Bridge Operation and Maintenance Company, with...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-09-11 00:00:00
More than three years have elapsed since Bangladesh's trade policy came under a global scrutiny under the umbrella of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It was the fifth trade- policy review of the country where various issues relating to trade...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-09-10 00:00:00
Experts have cautioned that Bangladesh's exports might shrink and industries suffer setbacks if the country joins a new free-trading bloc called RCEP, unless its privileged market access is secured.A recent high-profile meeting was told that the exports to many of...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-09-10 00:00:00
Stocks extended their winning streak for a fourth straight week, with the benchmark equity index hitting a nearly four-month high, as investors renewed their appetite for selective large-cap stocks amid high optimism ahead of the dividend season.Of the five trading...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-09-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to have its policies right in a world that is constantly in a state of flux. Though the world, so far as big power politics is concerned, has always seen changes, those cannot be compared to what is...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-09-10 00:00:00
As life expectancy increases in Bangladesh, concern also raises on how to organise and provide personal and healthcare services for them. Rapid urbanisation, high-rise apartment living, greater formal sector labour force participation by both spouses, disintegration of joint families, and...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-09 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is yet to take any decision on the fate of the Chinese contractor that is allegedly responsible for an accident on August 15 last on a construction site of BRT project in Uttara in...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-09 00:00:00
Tax authorities go lenient to facilitate corporate taxpayers in submitting genuine tax returns scanned through document verification system (DVS), billed as a failsafe device against the doctoring of company financials.Companies are allowed to file their tax returns for fiscal year...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh's commercial banks are going to fix varied uniform rates for importers, exporters and overseas exchange houses to help manage the ongoing foreign-exchange volatility.Under the proposed rates, all the authorized dealer (AD) banks will offer maximum Tk 108 per dollar...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-09 00:00:00
With the publication of the gazette notification for the 20-year (2016-2035) Detailed Area Plan (DAP), Dhaka city stands a chance---perhaps for the last time---to leave behind its infamous tag of a most unliveable city at the top of the global...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 06: Uncertainty has gripped a project meant for installing the second unit of the state-owned Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL) due to delaying tactics.The project to build the second unit of the ERL in order to increase the refining...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has launched a digital system to verify the authenticity of tax-return submission and expedite service delivery by the authorities concerned.Its income-tax wing officially opened up the 'tax return verification module' on August 21 last,...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
The central bank seeks explanation from six more banks over their alleged involvement in bagging windfalls from 'unethical' dollar dealings, which hit all in knock-on impact, officials said Wednesday.The managing directors (MD) and chief executive officers (CEOs) of five private...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
In death, decades after he made his way out of power, Mikhail Gorbachev is the subject of discussion in the West, which has gone into binge celebrations of his role in ending the Cold War and with that the collapse...
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Authorized dealer (AD) banks can retain value-added portion of export proceeds for 30 days instead of 15 days under a further relaxation of rules, for propping up Bangladesh's forex reserves. The central bank relaxed its regulations again on the encashment...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Import clearing needs to hop over 25-32 stops at major ports in Bangladesh for lack of coordination among authorities, says a study report, thus slowing delivery of goods.Importers have to complete import-clearing process passing through 32 steps at Chattogram seaport...
Chenlin Li and Chua Shu Yi | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
The Earth's average temperature has warmed by about one degree (10) Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to the most recent data by NASA. This change, although seemingly insignificant, has translated into a rapid global torrent of climate abnormality, followed by...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-09-06 00:00:00
BASIC Bank, the scam-hit government bank, considers creating more than a thousand new posts in its organogram, but the finance ministry has found the recruitment plan "not feasible", considering its overall state of affairs.The bank has recently sought 'no objection'...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-06 00:00:00
Austerity works as Bangladesh's import orders dropped nearly 24 per cent or US$1.77 billion in August following regulatory measures to ease pressure on the economy from forex crunch, officials said.The opening of letters of credit (LCs), generally known as import...
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