Nilratan Halder | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Undaunted, a few fringed and neglected learners have proved a point the more privileged high achievers have failed to do. These hapless boys and girls have known that their birth is their ultimate curse. But they had the gut to...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
The 154th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, a paramount figure of Bengali literature and a Nobel laureate, was observed on May 7 in Shelaidah of Kumarkhali Upazila in Kushtia district with due pomp and grandeur. Shelaidah, in Bangladesh, is associated...
Mohammad Shamsuddin Khaled | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Nowadays, many people of our country know about herbal treatment or herbal medicine. In Bangladesh, herbal medicine means Unani & Ayurvedic medicine. It is also called Traditional Medicine. Recently, the World Health Organization estimated that 80 per cent of people...
Nargis Sultana | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Human trafficking is essentially a new term for slave trading. It is the buying and selling of human beings, like the buying and selling of any other product. Victims are either sold by family members to people who want to...
Zeenat Khan from Maryland, USA | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
June 06, 2014 was a significant day on many levels - some worldwide, some personal. Today's column is about a significant loss of a notable person on that day, which will be forever engrained in my memory. As an old...
Rabeya Ferdous | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Nisa, a 2 years old child, came to get admitted at CRP on 10th October 2015. After coming she was diagnosed to have Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy. Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy results from damage to the basal ganglia of the brain. The...
Shah Md. Ahsan Habib | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Although the share of agriculture sector to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has decreased over time, as compared to that of service and industry sectors, it remains the largest employer in the country by far. Available statistics show that...
Javed Siddiqui | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Since October 2013, auditors in the UK have been issuing a new style of extended audit reports for certain listed companies. This is due to the new standard prescribed by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in the UK in 2013...
M Jalal Hussain | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a common indicator for economic development, widely used by all countries in the present century. It is a measure of the value of goods and services produced in a country in a fiscal year....
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
A recent report has assessed that corporate governance practices across the top 150 companies in India have improved but female representation on the boards of companies is still skewed. While provisions like having a whistleblower mechanism have been widely accepted,...
Yasir Wardad | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Production of food grains, vegetables, cash crops and fruits increased notably in the outgoing fiscal year (FY '15), but farmers incurred losses. The fall in prices of some produce, two spells of flood and the political turmoil during the third...
FE Report State Minister for Textiles and Jute Mirza Azam urged Thailand to allow duty free market access of Bangladeshi jute products to that country for reducing trade gape between the two countries. He made this appeal during his meeting...
VIENNA, June 5 (AFP): The OPEC oil producers' cartel has decided to keep the "same" output target of 30 million barrels per day, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said Friday."The ceiling is the same. You will be surprised how...
RAJSHAHI, June 5 (BSS): Experts in a training session have urged the growers and traders to give utmost emphasis on safe harvesting, handling and marketing of mango for food safety. Mango is the leading seasonal cash crop of the region...
The proposed Taka 2.95 trillion national budget for the forthcoming fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, that Finance Minister AMA Muhith presented last Thursday before parliament, has little surprises. Its size -- in terms of aggregate government expenditure -- reflects about a...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh is looking forward to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit with a positive frame of mind. A number of agreements are expected to be signed during his visit. The ratification of the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement by Indian parliament...
Haradhan Ganguly | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
The central bank of the country is virtually seeking the ultimate authority to set yield rates of the government savings tools. The rationale behind such a move is, apparently, to ensure stronger supervision of the financial market and contain inflation....
Babul Barman | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
Stocks edged higher for the five straight weeks that ended Thursday as investors followed cautious stance about the national budget. Finance Minister AMA Muhith Thursday proposed a set of fiscal measures, including increasing the threshold of tax-free dividend income and...
HONG KONG, June 5 (AFP): Asian markets mostly sank today, following Wall Street shares lower as the IMF cut its US growth outlook, with traders nervously watching events in Europe after Greece tied up a deal to delay its latest...
FE Report The government has planned to establish a banking commission to review and recommend policy measures on the country's overall banking activities. "We are planning to establish a banking commission to review and recommend measures on banking policies and...
(May 31-June 4, 2015) The local currency maintained stable tone last week against the greenback. Bangladesh received USD1.29 billion as inward remittances in April, 2015. The market might see the same tone next week as well. The average daily inter-bank...
MUMBAI, June 5 (Reuters): India's NSE index rose 0.2 per cent Friday, snapping a four-session losing streak as investors saw some of the blue chips such as Sun Pharmaceutical Industries as oversold even as broader sentiment remained cautious. The NSE...
Jubair Hasan | 2015-06-06 00:00:00
The country's state-owned enterprises (SoEs) managed to maintain 6 per cent growth in terms of gaining profit, thanks to a major leap in the earnings of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) in the outgoing fiscal year (FY) 2014-15, officials and...
Yasir Wardad Contribution of the largest labour-employing agriculture and service sectors to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined in the financial year (FY) 2014-15 compared to the previous year, government statistics revealed. However, share of the industrial sector to...
FE Report The proposed budget for the next fiscal year has increased trade VAT on super shops from 2.0 per cent to 4.0 per cent. "I, in order to eliminate the existing discrimination, propose imposing trade VAT at the rate...
FE Report Prices of fish, meat, and some vegetables witnessed a fresh hike on Friday compared to that of its previous level. Onion, ginger, garlic prices registered a slight reduction while chilli prices upped on the day. Fish of different...
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