TALHA BIN HABIB | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The government will issue certificates of land ownership (CLOs) and land smart cards to land owners to ensure the authenticity of ownership. A land ministry high official involved in the process has told The Financial Express the government has finalised...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The Planning Ministry has identified several challenges hampering the implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP), including flawed project formulation, a shortage of skilled project directors, weak feasibility studies, inconsistent data, and delays in land acquisition and utility relocation.These issues...
Nilratan Halder | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The world's demography was never categorised by alphabetic letters like it has been done since the Millennials. Yet its next generation known in short Gen Z has captured the headlines more than their preceding and succeeding generations. The Millennials have...
Shahidul Islam | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
On August 24-26, 2025, something remarkable happened in Cox's Bazar. More than 100 Rohingya from the camps and the global diaspora gathered with civil society leaders, humanitarian and development partners, UN agencies, member states, and senior officials of the Bangladesh...
Nilratan Halder | 2025-09-26 00:00:00
A webinar titled "Economic Dynamics and Mood at Household Level in Mid 2025" has explored a wide range of issues of national life including payment of bribes for official services and optimism about the country's future. The Power and Participation...
Serajul I Bhuiyan | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
Every country carries a thick book of sorrow-some hidden in secrecy, others etched on history as an eternal reminder to generations yet unborn. For Bangladesh, a country born out of the 1971 war of liberation and genocide, its heritage of...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-09-25 00:00:00
As the government moves to merge five crisis-ridden Shariah-based banks into a single state-owned entity, one pertinent question arises as to whether the same recipe would be applied to state-owned financial institutions. The state-owned commercial banks as well as specialised...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
Yields on treasury bonds fell below the central bank's policy rate on Tuesday, as banks channelled surplus liquidity into government securities amid subdued private credit demand ahead of the national elections.The cut-off yield, commonly referred to as the interest rate,...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
Much-hyped Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project (TRCMRP) is up for consideration at a meeting today as a government hunt for foreign funds gets going for bankrolling two dozen development schemes. Officials say health division promptly shortlists its five...
REZAUL KARIM | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
The government is set to review the benefits provided under the cash-based social-safety-net programmes once a year in keeping with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to make such operations time-befitting for the beneficiaries, sources say.The decision was made at a...
IFTEKHARUL ISLAM | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
On a slow weekend afternoon in Dhaka, Spotify shuffled to a song less heard. It began with a strangely familiar image: “Rooftops and crows/And guitars and away we go.” The song “Crows” by Orford mentions rooftop hangouts, the unnoticed birds...
Nasrin Akter and Sifat Kamal | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
Rail transportation of agricultural products provides cost efficiency, bulk shipments, reduced transit congestion, and minimised spoilage of perishable items. Despite these advantages, the newly launched weekly train services for agricultural goods, which commenced in October 2024, were suspended just one...
Mohammed Abul Ahsan | 2025-09-24 00:00:00
In developed economies, professional roles in finance and other sensitive sectors are strictly regulated. Progression into such positions is contingent upon obtaining well-defined certifications that validate both technical knowledge and adherence to ethical standards. For instance, financial planners cannot rise...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-09-23 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Sept 22: A total of 12 panels are contesting in the upcoming Chittagong University Central Students' Union (CUCSU) and hall union elections, scheduled for Oct 12. The EC announced the primary candidatures after scrutiny on Monday. A total of...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-09-23 00:00:00
Setting up new election infrastructures is estimated to cost Tk 4.65 billion under an Election Commission scheme for constructing 46 new server stations and regional, district and upazila offices. With national elections ahead for transition from the current post-uprising stand-in...
GULAM RABBANI | 2025-09-23 00:00:00
Despite various initiatives taken by the interim government, the prices of air tickets to several international destinations, including Saudi Arabia, have surged again after a brief decline, according to travel agencies and passengers. The abnormal rise in prices is attributed...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2025-09-23 00:00:00
BEXIMCO Zero Coupon Bond holders have started panicking over the future of their investments, as the issuer missed this month's due date for interest payment and investors have yet to receive the money.The trustee of the debt instrument, Sandhani Life...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-09-23 00:00:00
Finally, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia have given formal recognition to the state of Palestine on Sunday, September 21. The three staunch supporters of Israel-they still are-have decided to accept the Palestinian people's right to statehood. So, what prompted...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 21: The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to hand over 30 luxury vehicles, imported by former ministers and members of parliament (MPs) under duty-free facilities, to the government after two failed attempts to sell those at...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
Multi-donor-funded Dhaka metro-rail southern-route project is put on the backburner as the post-uprising government culled some previously conceived megaprojects under reset development priorities to make the most of scant resources, officials say. Put on hold is the proposed Dhaka Mass...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
A synchronized special government drive is being launched for speedy settlement of top 100 cases of state-owned banks, insurance companies, financial institutions and regulatory bodies to recover some Tk 380 billion.Officials have said the Ministry of Finance has made the...
Ismail Hossain | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
The second attempt to execute Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited's (BTCL) Switching and Transmission Network (STN) project is on the verge of failure amid serious allegations of irregularities and arbitrary decisions during the tender process.The project, aimed at improving digital connectivity...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
The committee formed after the fall of the previous government to probe stock market frauds has shed light on shortcomings in the securities rules, which seemed to have protected manipulators instead of investors.The most obvious outcome is the legal challenges...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
For the sixth time, America has used its veto power in Security Council to oppose an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. On previous occasions when veto power was used by America only its blind support for Israel was seen as the...
Neil Ray | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
Old habits die hard. A section of the bungling bureaucracy inherits this element much like people naturally inheriting the deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) from their ancestors. Or, how could the public administration ministry submit a proposal for purchasing luxury cars for...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-09-22 00:00:00
Repeated warnings by medical scientists and numerous studies conducted both by international as well as local research bodies have more than once come up with stark reminders against the dangers of improper, excessive and non-prescribed use and over-the-counter (OTC) sale...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-09-21 00:00:00
Spadework for the much-hyped bifurcation of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) picks speed as the government decides to make the reform progress before the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) next month.As...
MD. MOIN UDDIN MUSLIM | 2025-09-21 00:00:00
In the narrow, chaotic lanes of Khatunganj with the air thick with the scent of spices and the din of commerce, transactions worth over $250 million are sealed every day with little more than a handshake. In the heart of...
Md Tanjil Hossain | 2025-09-21 00:00:00
The July 2024 uprising, while it raised hopes for political change, also had significant economic implications. The aftermath of the uprising has created new expectations in Bangladesh's political landscape. Ordinary citizens believed that political change would soon translate into improvements...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2025-09-21 00:00:00
No fewer than 150 hills and hillocks are now at risk of being completely flattened. This time, the cause is not population pressure or the need to reclaim land for agriculture, but a grave error in survey records that borders...
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