Asjadul Kibra | 2022-01-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh economy is rebounding thanks to the resurgence of its external trade. The country's bilateral trade in goods with the rest of the world crossed US$110 billion in the last calendar year reflects the resurgence. In 2020, the value of...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 14: Implementation of the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar Railway Project is now going on in full swing with around 65 per cent of the project work already completed. Besides, construction work of the new nine rail stations on the under-...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh's products have so far got duty-free market access to only 38 countries, leaving vast swathes of potential untapped, trade officials say.The deficiency is attributed to a lack of proactive measures by the authorities concerned and failure to widen the...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) will start consultation next week with board members about designing replacement of its flagship 'Doing Business' report that evaluates business climate of the countries globally.Publication of the 'Doing Business' report was suspended in September last year...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
The revenue board finds the banks and large companies a bit tight-fisted in paying into public exchequer as corporate-tax collection from the latter grew 7.5 per cent in the first six months of the current fiscal year.Officials take exception to...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
Stocks posted a marginal gain in the outgoing week, extending the winning streak for the third straight week, with investors putting fresh bets on the state-owned listed firms, keeping aside Omicron worries.Week on week, the benchmark DSEX index of Dhaka...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
When Covid-19 was wreaking havoc with lives and healthcare systems in larger parts of the planet, people around the world were nervous and awe-struck. They had not even remotely experienced anything of this kind of mass extermination of their kinds...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
The continuous fall of Taka against US dollar as reported from the central bank from time to time is concerning for the common public. Though a linear cause-and-effect relationship does not always work in determining the behaviour of the essentials...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-01-15 00:00:00
Subsidies are not new in Bangladesh, nor in other countries for that matter, the developed ones included. There are certain sectors of economy which have been given subsidy by governments of every stripe, except erstwhile socialist ones with command economies....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-01-14 00:00:00
The SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron is wreaking havoc across the world, at least, in terms of infection rate. Bangladesh is no exception. The daily infection rate has more than tripled over the last couple of weeks. Though the number of daily...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-01-14 00:00:00
Notwithstanding a very good Aman paddy harvest and plenty of rice import, the staple is becoming dearer in defiance of the demand-supply theory. The medium variety of rice registered the highest price rise by more than Tk 4.0 a kilogram...
Md Salim Al Mamun and Md Ezazul Islam | 2022-01-14 00:00:00
Shortly after the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) had introduced a controlled interest rate policy, setting both deposit and lending rates for commercial banks which continued until the end of 1990s. The BB, in November 1989,...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-01-13 00:00:00
The rail connectivity is likely to fall six months behind inauguration of the Padma Bridge scheduled for June next, sources said.This is because, they said, the rail-track-placement work cannot be continued simultaneously with the work of the road bridge which...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-01-13 00:00:00
A good number of processed agro items are set to be included into the list of export subsidy facility due to their potential of contributing to the country's export earnings. To this end, the commerce ministry updated the list of...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-01-13 00:00:00
The central bank asks top bankers to jumpstart moves to augment remittance inflow immediately for ensuring macroeconomic stability of Bangladesh, evidently amid forex fall. Under the crash course charted in a meeting Wednesday, top executives of the private commercial banks...
Ismail Hossain | 2022-01-13 00:00:00
State-owned Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) further amends the submarine cable guideline to woo private as well as foreign investment.It eases the provision of 'previous experience' with a submarine cable-operating licence.The amended 'Regulatory and Licensing Guidelines for Invitation of Offers/Proposals...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-01-13 00:00:00
Apparel exporters have made a call to allow alternative entry points for their raw materials to resolve the issue of transit delay caused by frequent congestions at the Benapole-Petrapole customs point.They alleged that trucks now take 20-30 days to cross...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-01-12 00:00:00
As the possibility of a free-trade agreement (FTA) between Bangladesh and Australia is unlikely soon, trade officials suggest signing a bilateral investment treaty to bolster investment.Last September, the two friendly countries signed a trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) under...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-01-12 00:00:00
Bond-management automation could use hardly 7.0 per cent of allocated funds in four years, with the project apparently put on the backburner while some "unduly" enjoy duty-free buy.People involved with the automation works say any change in its procedures needs...
M Masrur Reaz and Hasnat Alam | 2022-01-12 00:00:00
Within five decades of its independence, Bangladesh has demonstrated impressive development performance, with multiple gains emanating from faster poverty reduction, robust economic growth, and sustained human development. The high share of manufactured goods in exports and rise in consumption has...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-01-11 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) will build a multipurpose commercial building near Chattogram Rail Station under public-private partnership (PPP) initiative as part of moves to salvage it from recurring losses.The commercial building on 0.42 acres of land will have a shopping...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-01-11 00:00:00
Road accident is a major killer in Bangladesh. The tragedies from motor vehicle collisions in the country are in a word horrifying. The waterways are also not free from tragedies caused by ferry disasters. Strangely, the railways are witnessing accidents...
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Towfiqul Islam Khan, Fabiha Bushra Khan and Faria Tahmeen Momo | 2022-01-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh has made immense progress in food security and nutrition, maternal and child mortality rates along with other socio-economic indicators over the past decades. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has not only ravaged the economic metrics in Bangladesh but has also...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-01-10 00:00:00
Internet speed is likely to be slower while the price of internet will be costlier in the country due to the use of higher volume of internet for the removal and transfer of cache servers across the country. According to...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-01-10 00:00:00
A vast market appears in sight as Bangladesh has formally proposed to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to strike free-trade agreement (FTA), officials say, as the country prepares for a socioeconomic status change.The proposal was made last week on the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-01-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Taka (BDT) keeps depreciating significantly against the US dollar as higher demand for the greenback for settling import-payment obligations outweighs forex inflow, sources say. The local currency lost its value by 20 poisha on the interbank foreign-exchange market...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-01-10 00:00:00
Tax-revenue collection grew 14.22 per cent, year on year, in the first six months of the current fiscal year but the amount stood Tk 170.81 billion short of the half-yearly target.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) achieved 88.08 per cent...
Neil Ray | 2022-01-10 00:00:00
Health services ---public or private ---in this country in general are not up to the highest standard. The top government and private hospitals are also located in the capital city. For treatment of complicated diseases and severe cases, patients are...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-01-10 00:00:00
Questions are very often raised about the quality and the pace of execution of public sector development projects. Even the highest authority of the government has on occasions expressed dissatisfaction over the cost and time overruns of projects. But the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-01-09 00:00:00
The draft new income-tax law is likely to ban cash transaction in some major areas like payment of salary and house rent after its implementation.But businesses suggest slapping the ban in phases.The law also keeps the much-talked-about source tax provisions...
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