Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-03-03 00:00:00
Refugee populations represent one of the most marginalised groups in whichever host country they come to settle and this is clearly the case with Rohingya population, a majority of whom are now living in Bangladesh. The United Nations High Commissioner...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-03-02 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority has officially shut down 126 customs borders, which account for 70 per cent of its trans-border road, rail and water routes to India and Myanmar.Officials say the National Board of Revenue (NBR) closed the Land Customs Stations...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-03-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh saw remittance inflow drop nearly 12 per cent in February mainly as working days of the expatriates in different countries squeezed, officials say. Bangladeshi nationals working abroad sent nearly US$1.50 billion in February last, according to the central bank...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-03-02 00:00:00
Broadly speaking, there are four essential elements in a production cycle. These are categorised as: inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes. Although maximum importance is attached to outputs and outcomes in developed countries, it is often the opposite in developing ones...
S M Ziaul Hoque | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh has just celebrated the golden jubilee of its independence. The present government has taken some enormous steps on the path to economic prosperity and the country has become one of the fastest growing economies that has got well recognition...
Md. Shah Alam | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
Insurance industry in general is a complicated and paper-intensive industry. From filling up proposal forms to issuing policy documents and other task involving use of huge papers. These complicated tasks can be managed in a prudent manner through adoption and...
Md Khaled Mamun | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh as a nation state has long been cherishing its graduation from the 'least developed country (LDC)' status. 2026 is going to be that milestone year in our history. The UN put Bangladesh in the least developed country (LDC) group...
Ala Ahmad | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
While Bangladesh's insurance penetration still remains below 0.5 per cent, the country possesses immense potential to further increase the popularity and penetration of this financial service. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has thrown many unprecedented challenges for the sector. Yet insurers,...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
The electronic toll-collection (ETC) system of bridges has so far received lukewarm response from the users since its introduction in 2019.The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has installed the ETC on a separate lane on 10 out of 12 toll...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is likely to extend the concessionary import-duty facility for raw sugar until May 30, 2022.The facility was scheduled to expire Monday (February 28, 2022).On October 14 last, the customs wing cut the Regulatory Duty...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
Credit flow into Bangladesh's private sector increases further as demand for loans, particularly for trade financing, grows for settling import payments. The reopening of the country's overall business activities has helped push up the credit growth, officials say about the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
The February 23's outrage committed against a female student of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) of Gopalganj by some local miscreants is another reminder of how insecure girls are in Bangladesh. That a female university...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-03-01 00:00:00
Debt problem is no stranger to the global economy. What is new now is that the global debt problem that rose incrementally, except in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-2008, has now shot up to record high levels...
Siddique Islam | 2022-02-28 00:00:00
The country's single-month import payments reached nearly US$6.50 billion in January 2022, following higher purchase of textile items from the global market to supply buyers' orders properly.The settlement of letters of credit (LCs), generally known as actual import, in terms...
Yasir Wardad/Rezaul Karim | 2022-02-28 00:00:00
Cooking gets yet costlier as edible-oil market became volatile in last two days with prices overriding set official rates, and refiners now bid for a fresh hike.Loose soybean-oil prices shot up to Tk 171 to Tk 175 a litre (Tk...
Neil Ray | 2022-02-28 00:00:00
That the Labaid Cardiac Hospital at Dhanmondi, according to a report, has been fined Tk 0.10 million for illegal occupation of footpath is, on the face of it, run-of-the-mill news. But looked from a broader perspective, it is not. The...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-02-28 00:00:00
Despite its declining share in the overall gross domestic product (GDP), agriculture still plays a pivotal role in Bangladesh's economy. A drop of one percentage point or more in its annual growth rate is enough to stir up deep worries...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-02-28 00:00:00
War is . . . an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.Carl von Clausewitz's succinct definition of war still holds true. What has been unleashed on and against Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Munima Sultana | 2022-02-27 00:00:00
The government has taken a move to conduct feasibility studies on 1,711-kilometre national and regional highways for making those four-lane ones.According to sources, the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is taking up the fresh project although construction work of two-thirds...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-02-27 00:00:00
The central public library will be housed in a 10-storey building at its original site in the city's Shahbagh with all modern facilities by December 2024.The 64-year-old library will temporarily be shifted to the city's Kakrail for the next three...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-02-27 00:00:00
Global trade has finally returned to the pre-pandemic level. The estimated value of the world trade in goods and services reached US$28.5 trillion in 2021, recording an increase of 25 per cent over what was in 2020 and 13 per...
Mohammad Tarikul Islam | 2022-02-26 00:00:00
COP26 in Glasgow can be viewed as different to many previous COPs for one important reason. Everyone voiced the same call in favour of delivery instead of promises. Arguments over targets and negotiation texts can only get us so far....
Salma Sultana | 2022-02-26 00:00:00
Production of shrimp and prawn has increased about 20 percent at small-scale farms that are managed carefully. A recent survey of selected smallholders in the south-western region has shown this progress. In Bangla, shrimp is called Bagda (brackish-water black tiger...
S. M. Waliullah Hossain | 2022-02-26 00:00:00
Pay structure of an organisation defines what an individual can do and what he is paid based on its value effectiveness in the business. Banks' pay structures are quite different from each other depending on their respective strategy. Most of...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-26 00:00:00
How much is too much? When the number of unsolicited short message service (SMS) texts sent by different cell phone companies to their subscribers is a staggering 1.52 billion on an average each day, one can't help wondering about the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-02-26 00:00:00
In its latest move, Russia is learnt to have begun aggression against Ukraine. Earlier, Russia termed it 'military operation' in the breakaway areas of the eastern Ukraine purportedly in response to the call of the separatist leaders of the Donbasarea...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-02-25 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority moves to look into some key factors like payment of subcontracting bills in foreign currencies over apparel exporters' plea for VAT waiver.The value-added tax (VAT) policy wing under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) would also review...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-02-25 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, reportedly, asked the relevant agencies to reduce in phases the volume of government subsidies on power and gas. The PM's directive came at the routine meeting of the executive committee of the national economic council...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-25 00:00:00
The inauguration of the pilot programme of the new education curriculum marks a quantum leap from an outmoded and less useful system to a highly advanced and useful one. This educational pilot programme was originally scheduled to begin phase-wise from...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-02-24 12:00:00
According to estimates, the proportion of older people (over 60 years) in Bangladesh will be 22 per cent in 2050 with about 36 million people compared to the current 8 per cent with about 13 million people. This suggests that...
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