Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
Even though the epidemic is yet to be over with its residual mild and isolated visitations still giving people harrowing time here and there, a phenomenal post-pandemic transformation has already taken place. The transformation, unfortunately is not for the better...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
The economy is clearly under serious pressure as the local currency, Taka, is losing its value at a faster rate against US dollar than before. On Wednesday (Aug 11), for example, the US dollar was sold at a maximum of...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-12 12:00:00
The system of education in this part of the world hardly renders young aspiring young learners materialise their dreams. Only a select few can make it to the choicest corridor of disciplines in their higher studies. For the rest, notwithstanding...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-12 00:00:00
Classified or non-performing loans in Bangladesh's banking sector hit an all-time high at Tk 1.25 trillion in the first half of the current calendar year despite policy perks provided to stem the tide.The H1 volume of non-performing loans (NPLs) jumped...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
The Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) has urged all the stakeholders concerned to create an enabling environment that will allow the inter-bank foreign-exchange (forex) market to operate effectively."Generally speaking, interventions and restrictions in any market distort transparency and impede the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
Banks now get a free hand to deal with overseas exchange houses to bring foreign exchange as the government strives to recharge reserves amid dollar crisis at home as also abroad. Price of cash dollar bucked up to Tk 119...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
As an incorrigible Bengali, one who enjoys traditional Bengali meals any hour of the day, I am worried about the scarcity of green chilli that goes with my food, indeed with the food of all my fellow citizens in Bangladesh....
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-08-09 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 08: The under-construction sluice gate on Chaktai Canal has turned out to be bane, not boon for the port city traders. Importers, exporters and wholesalers of essentials in Chaktai, Khatunganj and Assadganj areas have been suffering financially since...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh has finally made the duty-free market-access facility under preferential trade agreement (PTA) effective for Bhutan through a much-awaited official gazette. The customs authority has offered tax waiver on import of 16 Bhutanese products by issuing a statutory regulatory order...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-09 00:00:00
Taka depreciated deeply against the dollar on both interbank and kerb markets on Monday in defiance of preventive drives, prompting the regulator to caution six banks against distorting the market. The price of cash dollar hit an all-time high at...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-09 00:00:00
Fuel is such an essential item in the public's everyday life that any change in its price starts a chain reaction in the market. As a consequence, the cost of living goes up. And when there is already an inflationary...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-08-09 00:00:00
That the global economy is in turmoil is no news now. What everyone is waiting to hear is: can it become better before getting worse? As of now no one, from number crunchers in banks and research bodies to policy...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-08 00:00:00
Fuel-price hike would earn government an additional Tk 15 billion in revenue in the current fiscal year as one of the spinoffs, according to an official reckoning. The revenue is estimated to be generated from value-added tax (VAT) at sale...
Neil Ray | 2022-08-08 00:00:00
Mayor Atiqul Islam of the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) deserves kudos for coming up with yet another innovative plan. This time his brainchild is an introduction of QR code (an initialism for quick response code which is a two...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-08-08 00:00:00
Into the fourth week of his new job as the central bank governor, Mr Abdur Rauf Talukder initiated an action that many of his predecessors, deliberately or otherwise, had skipped. He, as his latest move suggests, wants to ensure good...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-08-07 12:00:00
Over the years, steps have been taken by the government to turn Bangladesh's sluggish debt market vibrant. Nevertheless, it all proved insufficient to achieve the end. Converting the non-tradable fixed-income government securities into tradable ones may be an option now....
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2022-08-07 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 06: The latest fuel oil price hike spelt untold miseries for the port city commuters, especially workplace-bound ones and school going students on Saturday.Their sufferings were mainly caused by an indefinite transport strike called by the Chattogram Metropolitan...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-08-07 00:00:00
A much-needed move to sign FTAs/PTAs with potential countries and economic blocs apparently lacks pace, thereby holding back the inking of the deals due to a lukewarm response.Although the government has since long made the initiative to sign such deals...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-07 00:00:00
The VAT officials would have to face difficulties in cross-checking the financial details furnished in the VAT (Value Added Tax) returns filed by the global technology giants as the companies do not have their respective offices in Bangladesh.The main obstacle...
SYFUL ISLAM and REZAUL KARIM | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh will push for securing the benefits it enjoys under the SAFTA deal when negotiations on Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) start with India soon, officials say.As a least developed country (LDC) all but 25 tobacco and alcohol products of...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Stocks rebounded strongly in the week to Thursday, paring two weeks of losses, amid high optimism as the securities regulator reintroduced the 'floor price' for all the equities.Continuous fall of share prices prompted the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC)...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
The national newspapers in Bangladesh have started to become slimmer. How the readers whose number is likely to decrease with the increase in price by Tk 2.0 on an average are reacting to this may be an interesting query. At...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Eminent litterateur Anisul Haque had written in an article back in 1997, "He is a peddler of light, a magical man in the city of memories. As the dusk dawned and the earth got submerged in darkness, the man was...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
The US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip has left the diplomatic community wondering if it marks a shift from the US's long-held one-China policy. Notably, during the last four decades plus years this has been the guiding principle of...
Ismail Hossain | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Mizanur Rahman, a retail investor was struggling as the stock market had been seesawing for a while after he had invested a good amount of his savings in the share market. During that time, the market was plummeting, and the...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to find and develop suitable models to provide care for its growing aging population. Old homes have been built here but complete residential isolation of the older parents and living with strangers have not been well liked by...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
Taxes on a slew of commodities are set to increase as the government further squeezes imports under crunch-time austerity to mitigate pressure on Bangladesh's foreign-exchange reserves. Officials say that, attuned to the government austerity measures, the revenue board again moves...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
A move has been made to form a new company to operate and issue single e-ticket for all mass transport as the metro rail is expected to roll this December.The government has already introduced rapid pass, an integrated circuit (IC)...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommunica-tion Regulatory Commission (BTRC) declared mobile tower company Edotco Bangladesh as a significant market power (SMP).The regulator also imposed some restrictions on Edotco following the SMP declaration.As per the restrictions, Edotco - from now on - cannot lease,...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
The draft Education Act now under review of the Cabinet Division for the fifth time since 2011 is supposed to help implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2010. If approved by the cabinet ministers, it is going to be the...
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