An estimated 53,000 people departed from Bangladesh and Myanmar for Thailand and Malaysia by smugglers' boats during January-November 2014, risking their lives, reports UNB quoting a new UNHCR report. The UNHCR estimates that 54,000 people have undertaken irregular maritime journeys...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 6: Salvage operation of fishing trawler FV Bandhan has been abandoned with the trawler itself and its 28 fishermen remaining under deep water in the Bay of Bengal. All the fishermen and crew inside the vessel are feared...
Removed minister Abdul Latif Siddique, who was arrested for his anti-Islamic remarks, was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) from Dhaka Central Jail after he fell sick at the jail on Saturday, reports UNB. Latif, who has been...
FHM Humayun Kabir | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has taken an initiative to purchase 55 vehicles including 15 SUV luxury cars under one of its proposed development projects spending Tk 638 million public fund, officials said Saturday. The state-owned BR recently sought approval of...
FE Report | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is making strategic changes to the existing techniques of its supervision on banks for ensuring financial stability in the banking sector that saw some deviations. Governor of the central bank Dr Atiur Rahman spoke about the initiative...
Bangladesh and Bhutan signed on Saturday two agreements, including one on trade that will see duty-free export of 90 items between the two nations, reports UNB. Another agreement is on allocation of a piece of land at Dhaka city's Baridhara...
Moazzem Hossain, back from China | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Acronyms are aplenty in economic parlance, in both global and regional perspectives, these days. In one way or other, these are now part of semantics, making sound or creating 'noise'. Do they make sense or carry substance, too? Perhaps, not...
FE Report | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The three-day Dhaka Apparel Summit begins today (Sunday) with the hope that the platform will help Bangladesh recover its image tarnished over poor workplace and safety conditions in the country's $24 billion garment industry. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters...
A case was filed against 14 people, including 10 officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, in connection with the seizure of over 124 kg gold, at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in 2013. Customs Inspector Mustafa Jamal filed the case on...
Zaidi Sattar | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Fractious politics, street violence, and frequent nationwide work stoppages, that prevailed for the better part of 2013, left a badly bruised economy. This year has seen relative calm across the country, though undercurrents of political discontent remain. Nevertheless, it presents...
Syed Munir Khasru | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Rarely has been a case that a mere acronym has led into reality. BRIC -- coined by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2001 in the context of forecasting global economic trends -- has actually brought together leaders from disparate...
Md. Toufique Hossain | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
'Beyond Greed and Fear' is a popular book written by Mr Hersh Shefrin. The book is focused on understanding behavioural pattern of finance and the psychology of investing. Mr Shefrin in his book said: "Even the best Wall Street investors...
Hasanuzzaman Choudhury | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Time, space and physics run. Special Relativity and General Relativity come together making the totality of cosmic unification. Particle Physics and Astro Physics join each other. Quantum and GUT meet one another. Unification of physics becomes true according to the...
Kazi Prottoy Ahmed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian country, where almost half the total population is involved with agricultural activities and more than one-third is financially active in agriculture. So, agriculture has the potential to catalyze food security, livelihood improvements and employment generation...
GultekinBinte Azad | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Global Shapers Community is a network of city-based hubs developed and led by young leaders between 20 and 30 years of age who want to develop their leadership potential towards serving society. It is one of several multi-stakeholder communities at...
Meraj E Mostofa, Chairman of Familytex (BD) Limited, CEPZ, Chittagong, while narrating the success stories of the RMG sector of Bangladesh in an interview with the FE | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The readymade garments (RMG) industry of Bangladesh is still retaining the status of the number one foreign exchange earning sector. The RMG sub-sector of Bangladesh tells an impressive story about the leadership of private enterprises in the successful transformation of...
Ziaur Rahman | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
More than fifty per cent of dentists in Bangladesh use amalgam in dental fillings notwithstanding its negative impacts on human health and the environment. Most of them do not even let patients know amalgam contains mercury. "They do it for...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Those who are thinking that the Bangladesh economy will automatically graduate to a higher growth level they are wrong. For the last one-decade or so Bangladesh economy was growing at around 6% annually, though in the recent years the public...
Bangladesh Development Update published by the World Bank in October last | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The governance environment may have been barely adequate thus far to cope with an economy breaking out of extreme poverty and low growth. Bangladesh needs to create a system of governance that can successfully manage the interactions between the state...
Sadiq Ahmed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
The substantial reduction in poverty in Bangladesh since independence is a cause for celebration. A major reason for this decline in poverty is the rising per capita income, growing from less than 2% per year in the 1970s to around...
Iftekhar Mahfuz | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Since the coining of the term 'Crowdsourcing' by Jeff Howe in 2006, it has been a popular concept. The term describes a web-based model that harnesses the creative power of amateurs or a distributed network of individuals (the crowd), through...
Mustafizur Rahman & Hosna Jahan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
LDCs constitute a significant group within the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Thirty four of the forty nine Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are members of the WTO, which has a total membership of 160. Eight LDCs are also in the process...
Zahidul Chowdhury Rahee, Saifur Rahman Saif and Hisham Uddin Khan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
A new year is on the corner and you are determined to take your brand to the next level by tapping a new segment. But, the problem is that others have thought about the same thing and there are not...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
It was a national disgrace of outsize proportion. The leakage of question papers of secondary and higher secondary examinations was not enough. Now the question papers of the primary school final examination has leaked. But the minister concerned has duly...
Muntasir Tahmeed | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
"Ocean issues affect billions of people, in ways that bring together business, politics, academia and science-The Economist's editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait. In line with Mr. John's apt remarks, let's recall that by the year 2025 about 75 per cent of the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Tax deducted at source (TDS) is a means of collection of income tax. It is gaining popularity across the world amid rising concern over tax evasion. In the budget for the current fiscal year (FY) the National Board of Revenue...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00
Getting out of the nagging problem of traffic congestion in Dhaka still remains a distant dream for the city-dwellers. Their sufferings have intensified rather. They do not know when they will get actual relief from this menace. To address the...
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