The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has preliminarily selected 50 names for the prestigious 'Tax Card' for 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal years, reports UNB. Of the 50, according to sources at the NBR, 40 names will finally be selected for...
Arafat Ara | 2014-08-31 00:00:00
Overseas job market for the country's outbound workers has been passing through a worrying recession over the months, with the prospect of negative impact on the inflow of remittances and employment situation for a large number of jobless. Experts and...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
Some people desire that they be left alone. Born introvert and enjoying solitude in an atmosphere of contemplation, such people are expected to be voracious readers if not claustrophobic and mentally deranged. Creativity at times demands loneliness as the best...
Mehdi Mahbub | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
One of the founders of Youngone that was established in Seoul in 1974, Mr. Kihak Sung came to Bangladesh in 1979, almost 35 years back. He took the initiative to start Youngone's first overseas operation at Agrabad, Chittagong. It is...
Abdullah Mohibuddin | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
On the 1st day of each month, I sit with the computer to pay all monthly bills through online. Here in Canada, every bank has set up its internet banking. Internet banking is convenient, easy and 100% secure. Again, at...
Dr Atiur Rahman | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
SEANZA Forum Chairperson, SEANZA member central bank Governors and Deputy Governors, other distinguished delegates and guests; my heartiest welcome and a very good morning once again to you all. We at this forum are from countries at all stages of...
It is a matter of utmost pleasure for me to know that Bangladesh Bank has already arranged two key SEANZA events namely SEANZA Advisors' Meeting and Central Banking Course (CBC) successfully. I am also glad to know that in the...
IT is my utmost pleasure to share that Bangladesh Bank (BB), assuming the position of host and chair of SEANZA Forum for the period 2013-14, has successfully arranged two key SEANZA events namely 29th Advisors' Meeting and Central Banking Course...
The SEANZA forum was formed in October 1956 under the proposal of Governor Dr. H.C. Coombs of the Reserve Bank of Australia, which grew out of a meeting of the Central Bank Governors from British Commonwealth countries in the Asia...
MG Neogi | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
People of low-lying and flood-prone areas are seriously affected by flooding almost every monsoon due to the climate change. Sometimes these floods affect the same areas 2-3 times in the same monsoon. Flood water inundates people's homesteads and homes. They...
Ahemed Shamim Ansary | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
With the increasing number of population in Dhaka, requirement of more footpaths has become crucial. They are also needed for the small street entrepreneurs, i.e. vendors. During peak hours, footpaths in Dhaka get occupied by a section of illegal occupants,...
Use of plastic products in the country has grown manifold, thanks to the dynamic improvement in recycling technology -- a key stimulus to increased production on the one hand and growing consumer preference on the other. However, lack of upgradation...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
Countless rivers, rivulets and canals are the lifelines of the Bangladesh economy. But then, all these sources of water that serve waterways, irrigation, fisheries and millions of people in their daily chores are fast drying up due to utter carelessness...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
The similarity between the two incidents involving two young women is quite uncanny. The two have just passed the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams and enrolled in colleges. Both of them died this month in road accidents in which so-called...
Alleging that formation of the ‘National Broadcast Policy 2014’ is an effort to control the media, editors, journalist leaders and eminent citizens rejected Saturday the policy saying that it will infringe the freedom of speech. “The broadcast policy has already...
A local English daily newspaper has reported that the government plans to include some new generic drugs in the 'controlled price' list, as currently many decontrolled drugs are becoming unaffordable to the people. More than 50 per cent price-controlled drugs...
The Tigers brace for a big challenge as they get prepared to face the West Indies in two Test-match series. They have lost badly in the three-match One-day series. The first Test match takes place on September 5 next. The...
A report of the United Nations has said that during delivery too many women die in Bangladesh and we must prevent it. We need to provide special care to the expecting mothers. We came to know from the UN report...
Saleh Akram | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
BRICS, the acronym for an association of five major emerging economies -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -- came into existence presumably to lessen global economic supremacy of the USA and its European allies and additionally inform the...
Shah M Ahsan Habib | 2014-08-30 00:00:00
Trade payment is at the heart of international activities of banks in Bangladesh and Letter of Credit (LC) remains the most widely-used method of trade payment both in import and export transactions. A recent study revealed that in 2012 (January-December),...
RANGPUR, Aug 29 (BSS): Experts at the concluding ceremony of a two-day training workshop here Thursday afternoon stressed the need for producing quality fish seed and quality fish feed to enhance fish production in the region as well as the...
VIENNA, Aug. 29 (Xinhua): The Russian import ban on agricultural products from the European Union has put pressure on Austrian farmers amid high yield harvests and falling prices. Potato prices have fallen two-thirds, from the usual 40 U.S. cents per...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures slid to a five-and-a-half year low on Friday due to fears of rising vegetable oil supply and lower demand, resulting in its biggest monthly loss since September 2012. The benchmark November...
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