Rahman Jahangir | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Believe it or not, 'free' primary education in Bangladesh is not free really. It is highly expensive. So where does the whopping government budget allocated on account of making primary education free every years go? According to a study, as...
Md Zakaria | 2014-03-22 00:00:00
Sometimes, it becomes difficult to open a bank account in a new place where you do not have anybody to introduce you. Introduction from an account holder is mandatory for opening a new bank account. The same provision existed in...
Autism is misunderstood in our society. We do not like to talk openly about it and those affected by this syndrome remain neglected as our society is yet to be fully aware of this problem. Even in Dhaka, we find...
Captain Nasimul Haque, a qualified retired commercial airline pilot, has given the most lucid, logical and possible causes that led to the mysterious disappearance of the MAS regular flight. His interesting observations, hinting to the lack of more information about...
A recent report published by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) says our country had wasted time worth more than Tk one billion due to the quorum crisis during the ninth parliament and it is an example of our wasteful nature....
The country's GDP growth will be around 5.6 percent in the current fiscal year, the lowest in over a decade, says a renowned economist though Finance Minister AMA Muhith still looks optimistic about achieving ambitious 7.2 percent target, reports UNB....
Charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two corruption cases have been framed in 'violation of rules' to politically harass her, the BNP has alleged, reports bdnews24.com. Standing Committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah has also expressed the hope the higher...
Two ministers have come down hard on National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman on Friday after he criticised the government on security of religious minorities, reports bdnews24.com. Health Minister Mohammad Nasim also questioned Rahman's political ideology at the...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 21 (BSS): Police detained a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Lohagara Upazila of the district on charge of an alleged attempt to violate a nurse Thursday night. Satkania police detained Jamaat Rukon Abul Kalam Azad from a medicine...
With the aim of boosting its popularity following a five-year rule that left many incumbency factors, the Awami League (AL) is now looking to concentrate on bettering governance standards more than ever before, reports UNB. Party insiders say that it...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Media reports say that the government is considering withdrawing the compulsory conditions for installations of solar panels on the rooftops of the newly-developed residential buildings in urban areas as a precondition to getting grid power connections. The noble idea for...
Edward Hadas of Reuters | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
How can a plane vanish in a small world? The information vacuum around Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is as unusual as it is disturbing. In the modern, globalised economy, things normally work well. When they don't, the causes can usually...
Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Political instability harms the services sector more than any other sector of the economy. The sector's contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at present is about 50 per cent in the economy of Bangladesh. About 31 per cent of...
The health minister, while speaking at a seminar in Dhaka last Sunday, raised an issue that until now has escaped the notice of the health sector policy-makers. It was about taking the doctors, responsible for wrong treatment, to task. The...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Civilisations have been always in the making on the banks of rivers. If rivers had undergone mighty changes for some reasons, civilisations ceased to exist. Mohenjodaro and Harappa tell a tale of one such devastation of the great Indus civilisation....
Shahana Bilkis | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Over the last three decades Bangladesh has been undergoing rapid urbanisation. This has created mounting accommodation problem in the major cities. Capital city Dhaka is home to some 15 million people. One study shows nearly 85 per cent of them...
The Ministry of Finance is preparing the national budget for 2014-15 fiscal year, which will be presented in parliament as a finance bill. In the current year, the minimum income tax limit is Tk 2, 20,000. I would like to...
It is indeed baffling that even after 12 days, the missing aircraft of Malaysia has not been rescued. It disappeared on March 8, 2014, en route to Beijing International Airport from Kuala Lumpur. The aircraft was carrying 12 crew members...
Crimea, being a part of Ukraine, should not show delinquency on the critical moment of national crisis which began more than four months ago. But the recent Crimea referendum reminds me of one thing that things fall apart when the...
Md. Joynal Abdin | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
The traditional agrarian economy of Bangladesh is set to be transformed into an industrial one. According to statistics, contribution of industry to Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) is increasing day by day. It was 21.7 per cent in 1991, 25.9...
Masum Billah reviewing the book | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh Share Market: Looking Ahead After Two Big Crashes is quite a big book of 484 pages with seventeen chapters accommodating the share market scams, the historical background, their causes, present status, impact on micro and macro-economies, and impact on ...
BRUSSELS: The EU welcomed Ukraine into the Western fold Friday, signing the political provisions of a landmark accord as a defiant Russia formally completed its takeover of Crimea. Seeking some leverage over a newly-assertive Moscow, European Union leaders agreed sanctions...
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Stocks rebounded Thursday, breaking a week-long losing streak with turnover registering this year's lowest level as lucrative prices lured back opportunistic investors. The market opened with a positive note and the uptrend continued till the market closure. At the end...
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has requested his Japanese counterpart Haruhiko Kuroda to encourage Japanese investors and companies to establish research and development (R& D) facilities in Bangladesh, reports UNB. Dr. Atiur, now in Japan, made the request during...
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
All telecom service providers have to use 'fiber optics transmission capacity' from the NTTN operators following the directive of the telecom regulator. The directive of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) mentioned on Thursday that the service providers must lease...
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
The securities regulator has given its consent on the purchase of trading platform from two vendors--NASDAC OMX and FlexTrade, in a bid to replace the existing trading platform of the premier bourse, officials said. In this regard, Dhaka Stock Exchange...
ICAB ex-president to participate CAPA events in Manila Anwaruddin Chowdhury, Member Council & Past President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and Director of Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) will participate in the PICPA and ADB...
MUMBAI, Mar 20 (Reuters): The BSE Sensex fell on Thursday, retreating further from record highs hit at the start of the week, on worries US interest rates would rise sooner than expected and dent the appeal of higher-yielding emerging markets....
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