Md Shafiqul Islam | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
Stroke prevalence has already surpassed pandemic levels. 1 in 4 persons above the age of 25 experiences a stroke globally. In Bangladesh, the prevalence of stroke is 11.39 per thousand people. After heart failure, stroke is the leading cause of...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
When global warming has raised the spectre of toothless winters and burning temperature in summer months, this part of the country is defying any such prediction. Indeed, Tentulia recorded the lowest ever temperature at 2.6 degree Celsius on January 8,...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2023-01-07 00:00:00
Healthcare access is vitally important to improving health, preventing disease and death, and improving the quality of life of the population. Access to healthcare has been commonly described and understood by geographic, economic, or cultural terms or determinants by public...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-06 00:00:00
Nepal has proposed that Bangladesh rationalise high tariffs and eliminate other duties and charges (ODCs) levied on Nepalese export products to Bangladesh.The Embassy of Nepal in a recent letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the proposal, in order...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-01-06 00:00:00
The government's tax revenue from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dropped 30 per cent year-on-year to Tk 1,661 million in the first half of the current fiscal year, owing to a plunge in turnover.The market was sluggish throughout the period....
Nilratan Halder | 2023-01-06 00:00:00
A UNESCO research paper prepared with contribution from the BRAC titled, "Global Education Monitoring 2022" released on Tuesday last has focused primary on South Asia's expenditure on education with special emphasis on the role of educational institutions in the private...
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh seeks WTO-recognised Net Food Importing Developing Country (NFIDC) status to continue providing agricultural export-credit subsidy even after its LDC graduation, as its current edible imports outweigh exports. As the graduation process is on stream, the Ministry of Commerce has...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
The latest scam of Tk 1.57 billion by an asset manager came as a fresh blow to the mutual fund sector as a sense of insecurity is feared to prompt open-end unit holders to mount a liquidation pressure. Fund manager...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
It is rare, if ever, for multi-lateral institutions like World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to go public on the state of global inequality, presumably on the ground of the subject being ideologically incorrect for...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-01-05 00:00:00
Every day is a story. Every week is an event. Every month is a narrative. Every year is history in the making.In January 1964, President Charles de Gaulle energised the world and left his western allies stunned when his government...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
The Dhaka metro authorities seek investors for its fourth metro-rail project as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is unlikely to invest in the entire part of Mass Rapid Transit Line-05 South (MRT-05 South).The MRT-05 costs an estimated $5.05 billion for...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
Factories had closed following years of losses. Then the economy plunged into turmoil. But nothing seems to have kept the stocks of Imam Button Industries and Meghna Condensed Milk Industries from making giant leaps in the gloomy stock market in...
Nowshaba Achal | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
The traditions of Italian food, art, music, architecture and literature are extensive. Italian cuisine is regarded as one of the world's best and most diversified ones. It is enriched with unique flavours, which will certainly tempt your taste buds and...
Md Masudul Haque Prodhan | 2023-01-04 00:00:00
Marine overfishing is a crucial issue around the world. Overfishing can ultimately reduce global fish production if higher reproduction rates are not in place. Thus the contribution of this sector to global food and nutrition security may be seriously affected.Overfishing...
Munima Sultana | 2023-01-03 12:00:00
A special fund of at least Tk 1.5 billion is going to be created for road-accident victims and fatally injured people, as the Road Transport Rules 2022 (RTR) has kept the provision of forming the fund by collecting fees from...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2023-01-03 00:00:00
Return submission by individual taxpayers grew by a modest 21.74 per cent by the extended deadline in the current tax year, belying taxmen's expectation of a quantum leap.Some 2.8 million taxpayers had submitted returns until the January 1, 2023-deadline by...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-01-03 00:00:00
The securities regulator seeks policy support, especially from the revenue board, to attract non-listed but good companies into the stock market so it gets strengthened when majority securities are lying low amid heightened economic threats this year. The market would...
Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, Towfiqul Islam Khan, Muntaseer Kamal and Syed Yusuf Saadat | 2023-01-03 00:00:00
Bangladesh's external sector has been a key pillar of the country's impressive development narrative. This is manifested in robust export performance and increasing amount of remittance flows, comfortable balance of payment position, high foreign exchange reserves, exchange rate stability, and...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-01-03 00:00:00
The UN General Assembly last Friday (December 31) passed a resolution seeking the International Court of Justice (ICJ)'s opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. Notably, the ICJ is the UN's highest court. Seated in...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-02 00:00:00
Sudden levying of hefty supplementary duty on limestone import hikes manufacturing cost of a plethora of products like cement, paper and so in local industries. Industry-insiders say the customs wing under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is charging 69-percent...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-01-02 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 01: Construction work on Matarbari Deep Seaport is going on in full gear and the port's main two terminals will be fully operational within less than three years, officials involved with design and implementation of the project said....
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-01-02 00:00:00
The stock market passed a rough patch last year. But the changes that the regulator felt forced to make to bring some sort of stability in the volatile market will bear fruits not only in 2023 but also in many...
Neil Ray | 2023-01-02 00:00:00
December is the month when a flurry of distribution of leaflets, pamphlets, brochures and even booklets takes place all around. For years, the sponsors have taken an easy way out: they insert their advertisement materials into newspapers. Thus the newspapers...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-01-02 00:00:00
Seventy-five years old Jorimon died last Friday morning in her hospital bed at the Dinajpur M. Abdur Rahim Medical College Hospital. She was found groaning in a gunnysack dumped near the boundary wall of the hospital about a month ago...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON AND DOULAT AKTER MALA | 2023-01-01 12:00:00
Welcome 2023 AD, the year that is preceded by one of the most difficult periods in history. People are pinning high hopes on the New Year, expecting an economic turnaround.It is expected that a tolerable inflationary pressure might in place...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-01-01 12:00:00
Thoughts on equality of the economic variety (there being social and political ones) conveyed by analysts and economists have been simmering for quite some time. It surfaced, almost surreptitiously, in early '30s when Simon Kuznets published his report on the...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-01-01 12:00:00
Another fresh year starts today with many negative features. However, there will also be no dearth of enthusiasm to overcome the various economic challenges. From the domestic to the global front, there is no doubt that economic outlook for 2023...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2023-01-01 00:00:00
The country's telecom sector witnessed a mixed year in 2022, with some optimistic events like 5G spectrum auction and off-putting events like SIM sale ban on the largest mobile operator Grameen Phone. The country's telecom regulator launched 5G spectrum auction...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2023-01-01 00:00:00
Many listed companies have been traded at abnormally high P/E (price to earnings) ratio in the outgoing year when the market has remained persistently gloomy and their peers with good fundamentals have languished at floor prices in absence of buyers....
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-12-31 00:00:00
Domestic revenue mobilisation posted more than 14-percent growth in the outgoing year 2022 amid inflation-fuelled economic slowdown and erosion of real income.Despite disrupted supply chain for the Russia-Ukraine war, costly dollar and high commodity prices globally, the government's revenue-collection efforts...
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