Nilratan Halder | 2022-07-08 00:00:00
Socrates, the great philosopher-teacher of ancient Greece, was sentenced to death on charge of corrupting youths. This happened in 399 B.C.---only five years after the fall of Attica that began a brutal and humiliating decline of the Golden Age of...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-07-08 00:00:00
Nurses in Bangladesh play a vital role in delivering patient-care services and achieving desired patient-outcome measures in healthcare settings. Their roles, importance, and responsibility turned out to be particularly relevant during the current Covid-19 pandemic, where they were leading in...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Cattle trading in the capital reported poorly on the first on Wednesday as traders sought high prices for sacrificial animals from prospective buyers.The FE visited makeshift markets at Kamalapur, Shajahanpur, Jatrabari and Shanirakhra areas and found traders taking care of...
Munima Sultana | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Government authorities move to revive a dormant project for developing over 200-km expressway in Bangladesh's prime Dhaka-Chattogram corridor, sources say, now that even the upgraded highway is getting clogged.Roads and Highways Department (RHD) suspended the Tk 933.5 billion Dhaka-Chattogram expressway...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority expects around Tk 20 billion in taxes by whitening undisclosed money as the budgetary bait of amnesty begins to arouse response, sources say.The first-of-its-kind scheme of whitening black money by paying 7.0- percent tax may lure back...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
A parking policy prepared for Dhaka four years back seems shelved while transport disarray in the capital creates traffic impasse, say sources and blame vested interest for the drawback. They say Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) formulated the draft Parking...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
There are all the worries we need to deal with, though we cannot say that we will tide over them anytime soon. For the middle class, and especially for those who have fixed jobs and so salaries that do not...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-07-06 00:00:00
Sonali Bank Ltd incurred a cumulative loss of Tk 182.53 billion in the last 13 years as the state-owned bank has to provide services free of charge or at low cost.In 2021, the bank's loss was Tk 26.70 billion, its...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-07-06 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, July 05: The country's first-ever university campus-based IT business incubator will kick off its journey on Wednesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually inaugurate the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET)'s Sheikh Kamal IT Business Incubator in the...
Md. Kamrul Bari | 2022-07-06 00:00:00
On the last of day of June, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has declared its annual monetary policy statement (MPS) for the fiscal year 2022-23 (FY23). The new monetary and credit plans are intended to pursue a cautious policy stance with a...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2022-07-05 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, July 05: The Chittagong port would soon install two more Quay Gantry Cranes (QGC) as these arrived here on Sunday to facilitate smooth operation of the country's main seaport.With these two, the port will have a total of 18...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-07-05 00:00:00
A flexible approach to enforcement of the provision for mandatory verification of tax-return slip is being adopted for now, officials say as apprehensions grow about money migration into informal economy.The customized software on third-party verification that is a proof of...
Siddique Islam | 2022-07-05 00:00:00
Dhaka Bank Limited wants to attract new customers through providing world-class services using the latest technologies, the bank's top policy maker has said."We're committed to provide time-bound services to our valued customers," Abdul Hai Sarker, chairman of Dhaka Bank, told...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-07-05 00:00:00
Two recent incidents at the country's two educational institutions have jolted public conscience. In one case, a teacher at a school in Savar, not far from Dhaka, was killed by his student on the schoolyard. In another, a teacher was...
Rezaul Karim | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
Sri Lanka has sought assistance from Bangladesh to facilitate emergency shipment of liquid chlorine from the Chittagong port as reserves of the water-purification chemical are almost exhausted in the crisis-hit neighbouring country.The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Dhaka sent...
Neil Ray | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
A small country mostly so homogeneous could not perhaps be so divisive as it looks now. It is all because of the rise of extreme intolerance within society. At a time when the country was supposed to get united on...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-07-03 12:00:00
The day the national parliament approved the budget for the fiscal year 2022-2023 (FY23), Bangladesh Bank (BB) also announced its annual monetary policy statement (MPS). It is the last MPS unveiled by Fazle Kabir, the outgoing BB governor of the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-07-03 00:00:00
A total of 14 private commercial banks (PCBs) in Bangladesh showed increased operating profits during six months to this past June, mainly banking on the country's booming foreign-trade activities, bankers say.Of the 42 PCBs in the country, the FE obtained...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-07-03 00:00:00
The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) plunged 380 points in the first six months of 2022 as the jittery investors dumped their holdings amid macroeconomic worries.The market has been in doldrums during the period under review amid...
Shah Alam | 2022-07-02 12:00:00
♦ Why does every one Need Financial Planning?To find out the real cause of this question. We are facing an important question about this such as: what do we do when we want to go somewhere? There are some alternative...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-07-02 12:00:00
The World Bank (WB) Group President David Malpass recently presented a bleak scenario of the world economy for the next two years. In his view, prices of commodities are not going to come down any time soon as the US...
SYFUL ISLAM and REZAUL KARIM | 2022-07-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh's export may grow by 17 per cent and gross domestic product (GDP) 0.26 per cent if a free-trade agreement (FTA) is signed with member-states of the emerging Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) bloc.The RCEP deal, which came into force...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-07-02 00:00:00
Snapping a two-week losing streak, stocks rebounded in the outgoing week, as bargain hunters put money cautiously on lucrative issues with expectations of higher returns in the new fiscal year.Of the five trading days this week, the first session saw...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-07-01 00:00:00
Start-up companies will get relief from submission of proof of tax return for two consecutive years to avail different services, according to a new provision in the Finance Act-2022.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has relaxed the provision of mandatory...
Siddique Islam | 2022-07-01 00:00:00
The central bank unveils its monetary policy that, according to its outgoing governor, is cautious in stance and has a tightening bias. It, however, is hopeful about maintaining support to economic recovery process and ensuring necessary flow of funds to...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-07-01 00:00:00
Getting old is largely a frightening experience for many in Bangladesh as they have to depend ordinarily on family caregiving arrangements and, sadly, socioeconomic support needed at that stage of life does not quite exist or is not yet developed...
Siddique Islam | 2022-06-30 00:00:00
The central bank is set to unveil a 'cautious' monetary policy for the next fiscal year (FY), 2022-23, today (Thursday) - to curb inflation without hampering the country's economic growth, officials said. Outgoing Governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) Fazle Kabir...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-06-30 00:00:00
Development, especially in our times, is like the moon. While we see the luminous side of it, it is the dark side which remains beyond our vision. And on that dark side are laid out the many tales of sorrow...
Siddique Islam | 2022-06-29 12:00:00
A hot demand for the US dollar for higher import payments causes the Bangladesh Taka (BDT) to tumble further as the local currency Tuesday depreciated by 50 paisa against the greenback. The local currency lost its value by 50 paisa...
Munima Sultana | 2022-06-29 12:00:00
The Padma Multipurpose Bridge (PMB) project authority has a plan to hand over the lower deck of the Padma Bridge to the Bangladesh Railway (BR) by July 15 next so that it could start installing rail tracks.The placement of the...
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