Munima Sultana | 2022-02-24 00:00:00
Vistas of Saudi investment in Bangladesh under public-private partnership (PPP) opens as development and operation of port terminals in Potenga and Payra are picked first by the Saudi government.Sources say three terminal projects in Potenga and Payra along the Bay...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-02-24 00:00:00
The volume of customers' stuck- up funds with 25 e-commerce platforms would be around Tk 5.60 billion, a latest central bank report has revealed, which is much higher than the previous estimate of Tk 2.14 billion.According to the report obtained...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-02-24 00:00:00
Not the haunting of a 'spectre', as Marx and Engels declared in a different context in 1848, inflation is riding high in the economies of the world -- small, medium and large -- and is threatening to go out of...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-02-23 00:00:00
The government is gradually getting less interested in developing bus rapid transit (BRT) lines due to the bitter experience it was facing while trying to develop the first bus-based mass transit line from Gazipur to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).As...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-02-23 00:00:00
The European Union moves to launch a new initiative with Bangladesh to synchronise the latter's public-and private-sector interests for tapping growing business potential unhindered. Officials say the engagement in extensive business dealings is planned under the rubric 'EU-Bangladesh: Meaning Business'....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-02-21 12:00:00
The numbers that refer to positive development could often be misleading. The country's per capita income is one such number. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), in its final estimate, has hiked the country GDP growth rate to 6.94 per...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
On February 21 in 1952, tragedy struck Dhaka, indeed the whole of East Bengal, when the police fired on the student demonstrators gathered in defence of the Bangla language on the campus of Dhaka University The next day, 22 February,...
Bashir Al Helal | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
Language Movement began in 1947 and reached its climax in the killing of 21 February 1952, and ended in the adoption of Bangla as one of the state languages of Pakistan. The question as to what would be the state...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
Mother languages may be compared to a mother's milk because of the joy and freedom associated with expressing in mother-tongue. Bangladesh is a land where the name of the country as well as language has remained inseparable. Although the people...
Neil Ray | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
There is hardly any controversy over the contention that the young generation is generally inclined to browsing smartphones and losing interest in reading books. A decline in reading habit is not a recent phenomenon, in fact it had begun well...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-02-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 19: The time for completing Karnaphuli Capital Dredging project, beset with many problems and delayed multiple times earlier, including coronavirus outbreak and the consecutive lockdown, has been extended once again.Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), the implementing authority of the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-02-20 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has taken an initiative of holding training programmes for the owners and managements of all stock brokers to aware them protecting investors' money and shares.The premier bourse DSE has come up with the training programmes following...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-02-20 00:00:00
Inflation is rising across the world. Households in many countries as a result have started to feel the pinch of price hikes of essential commodities and services like food, housing, energy and transport. Thus, the cost of living is rising...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-02-19 12:00:00
The benchmark index in the Dhaka stock market plummeted in the outgoing week after a single-week break, as investors rushed to book profit ahead of annual earnings and dividend declaration season.Of the five trading days this week, three sessions faced...
Nabila Noshin | 2022-02-19 00:00:00
Poverty is one of the most challenging issues especially in Bangladesh, which needs to be addressed through the multidimensional lens. Poverty alleviation in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges humanity continues to face. Understanding poverty holistically as...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-19 00:00:00
As a consumer, everyone is different and so are personal likes and dislikes. However, when it comes to making a choice of consumer goods from the staple to the toiletries to the fancy items with no utility value except for...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-02-19 00:00:00
After industrial effluents, sewage and plastics, we have now pharmaceutical products polluting rivers and threatening human as well as aquatic life. A study carried out by the University of York on 258 rivers in 104 countries has come up with...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
Pay for land and crops both if to construct power tower, an updated government policy says about compensation to the landowner concerned. The government has amended the Power Rules 2020 to specify the process of compensation to the landowners on...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
The regulator brings operations of banks' offshore banking units (OBU) under its close watch following a steep rise in demand for foreign-currency loans, particularly in private sector.As part of the regulatory move, sources say, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has included...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Thailand may start negotiations on signing a free trade agreement (FTA) in the upcoming foreign office consultation (FoC) which is expected to be held in Bangkok on March 1 next, sources said.They said foreign secretaries of the two...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 17: Construction work of the Deep Sea Port in Matarbari area of Cox's Bazar district is going on in full gear now after a halt due to coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown.An official having full knowledge of...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
'IPO pipeline dries as cos duck listings' screamed the headline of the page-one lead story of the FE's last Wednesday's issue. The IPO (initial public offering) basket of the securities regulator, according to the FE report, is almost empty. One...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
The economic outlook of Bangladesh is robust. This is the considered opinion of multilateral bodies like the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). According to these international financial institutions, Bangladesh will achieve...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-02-17 00:00:00
The second meeting of the special committee to fix metro-rail fares ended inconclusively on Wednesday as it found lack of adequate information necessary to determine the same.Held after more than a year, the meeting however identified that information like per...
Hasina condoles | 2022-02-17 00:00:00
Music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 80s and 90s, died at Mumbai's CritiCare Hospital on Wednesday, report agencies.He was 69."Lahiri had been admitted to the hospital for a month and was discharged...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-02-17 00:00:00
Oracle Bangladesh, the local chapter of the global software giant, has merged its vision with the spirit of 'Digital Bangladesh' and the country's aspiration to become knowledge-based economy by 2041, says its Country Managing Director Rubaba Dowla.Using its knowledge, infrastructure...
Learning to eat well | 2022-02-17 00:00:00
A recent survey has found that most of our people consume inadequate levels of fruits and vegetables. It was found that in Bangladesh 75 per cent of urban and 92 per cent of rural people take less than 40 grams...
Dr. Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-02-17 00:00:00
Work-related injury, in general, has never gained priority from any quarter in Bangladesh except by the ready-made garment sector (RMG) thanks to the very unfortunate factory fire and building collapse incidents that cost so many garment workers' lives and maimed...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-02-16 00:00:00
People below 21 years of age not permitted to take liquors, while consumption and usage of alcohol would need official permission.Licence, permit and renewal fees have been revised upward for all types of alcohol-related permission.Maximum three units of alcohol can...
Siddique Islam | 2022-02-16 00:00:00
The central bank offers a special bailout to loan defaulters with non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) through 'One Time Exit' by clearing all dues within one year, in the wake of bad-loan buildup. The borrowers will have to apply by paying...
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