RANGPUR, Aug 2 (BSS): Agriculture experts at a farmers' field day here today stressed the need for nationwide cultivation of the off-season, indigenous, short-duration local variety Parija rice to ensure food security. They said this while addressing the field day...
JAMALPUR, Aug 2 (BSS): The Fisheries Department is working hard to achieve the fish production target of 30,051 tonnes in the district this year. District Fisheries Officer Ranjit Kumar Paul said this while speaking at a views-exchange meeting organised by...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 2 (BSS): Educationists and agriculturists highlighting the salient features of dragon fruit, particularly its high nutritional and commercial values, expressed the opinion that there is an enormous prospect of its farming in Rajshahi region including the vast Barind...
FE Desk The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) on Sunday said the just-unveiled monetary policy is not private-sector friendly. "As a whole, the H1 MPS (half-yearly monetary policy statement) does not seem to encourage the substantial private sector...
FE Report | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
Apparel industry leaders will place an action plan to the government this week seeking infrastructure improvements and smooth supply of energy needed to achieve the targeted $50 billion garment export by 2021. "We have prepared a roadmap in consultation with...
Arafat Ara | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
Local handicraft makers have been failing to substantially scale up overseas sales over the years, hamstrung by the absence of necessary design upgradation facilities, said exporters and market players. As taste and choice are always changeable, product upgradation is needed...
Updated code for shrimp processors The government has brought fish processing plants under its revised code of conduct (CoC) for further improvement in the standards and safety of local shrimps. Fisheries and livestock minister Mohammad Sayedul Hoque launched the updated...
China has expressed its deep interest to upgrade or newly construct three paper mills of the country- Karnaphuli Paper Mills, Khulna Paper Mills and North Bengal Paper Mills, Pakshi- on government-to-government (G to G) basis, reports UNB. China Chemical Engineering...
The prices of onion have skyrocketed by Tk 20 a kilogram in the capital city. Businessmen blamed the abrupt hike on a spike in prices on low supply from India, reports bdnews24.com. On Thursday, onion was sold at Tk 65-70...
FE Report | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
Electronic government procurement (e-GP) is a modern and integrated online system for procurement of goods, work and services with public funds by the government procuring entities. The government deserves appreciation for digitising public procurement that involves about Tk 780 billion...
Want to verify the standard of a product showcased by a popular super shop in in the city? Just download the mobile app named BSTI (Product Check) from Google Play Store and you would find the names of different kinds...
The Awami League has in a letter asked the Election Commission (EC) to take steps to cancel expelled leader Abdul Latif Siddique's membership of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS), reports bdnews24.com. The letter signed by AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam...
BNP described on Sunday the government move to impose 7.5 per cent value added tax (VAT) on private higher educational institutions as anti-people and discriminatory, and urged the prime minister to withdraw it for the sake of country's poor and...
Separate courts in Dhaka sent on Sunday BNP leader Amanullah Aman to jail in a number of cases filed for arson attacks and vandalism during the BNP-led 20-party alliance's blockade and hartal programme, reports UNB. Ten Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Courts,...
The High Court (HC) is set to deliver its verdict on August 05 on two petitions filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the inclusion and legality of the Gatco graft case against her, reports UNB. An HC bench of...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Aug 2: Four activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured in a factional clash over establishing supremacy at a hall on Rajshashi University (RU) campus in the early hours of Sunday. The injured are Saikot Hossain, a...
SHARIATPUR, Aug 2 (BSS): Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said on Sunday trial of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would be held under Special Tribunal during the tenure of this government for killing people and carrying out atrocities across...
MEHERPUR, Aug 2 (UNB): An alleged robber ringleader was killed and four police personnel were also injured in a gunfight between police and robbers at Rajanagar village in Sadar upazila early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Miarul Islam (42),...
SHARIATPUR, Aug 2 (BSS): Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said on Sunday trial of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would be held under Special Tribunal during the tenure of this government for killing people and carrying out atrocities across...
Kazuhiro Watanabe, a Japanese citizen who translated 'Asamapta Attojiboni', autobiography on Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, into Japanese language, called on Speaker of Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at her office in the city on Sunday,...
Syful Islam | 2015-08-03 00:00:00
The government is set to take up a Tk 14.37 billion project aiming to streamline service delivery system, especially construction of roads, surface drains and waste management in 50 municipalities, officials said. The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will be proposed...
Md Abdur Rouf | 2015-08-02 00:00:00
The Value Added Tax (VAT) system is known to be complex in our country. The system is not clearly understood by all. In fact, VAT system being a modern taxation system can not be expected to be understood by all...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2015-08-02 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) operates 26 jute mills and employs about 60,000 workers. At the moment the mills are running at half of their capacity. The problem of the corporation is that it can not buy raw jute...
The central bank's Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the first half of the current financial year is largely in line with the tone and tenor of the immediate past ones. This is so as far as its principal goals and...
Shahiduzzaman khan | 2015-08-02 00:00:00
The power sector requires investment of Tk 1655 billion over the next five years, according to a draft on the energy sector reform of the 7th Five-Year Plan presented to the consultative meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) recently....
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-08-02 00:00:00
Achieving the middle-income country (MIC) status by 2021 might or might not be hard for Bangladesh. In a report prepared by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), the prerequisites for attaining the cherished goal have been spelt out....
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