Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2022-12-22 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 21: Test berthing of 10-metres draft ships will start at jetties of Chittagong Port next week following recommendations made by a British company which submitted to the authority findings of its study on the river Karnaphuli last week....
Mukarrama Lubaba Ohee | 2022-12-22 00:00:00
Cyber security and information security are often used synonymously, in the sense that the main idea is to protect people, processes, and technology from malevolent actors such as hackers, inside threats, spammers, and other malicious players. It has been observed...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-12-22 00:00:00
Now that the World Cup is over, a new worry assails us. What will the Bengali do since there are no more matches to be enjoyed in ear-splitting noise? There is dead silence which has engulfed the world, especially our...
Abu Mukhles Alamgir Hossain | 2022-12-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh's export trade is vulnerable as its major merchandise export earnings depend on a few exportable products. This trend in export trade is slowing down the progress of the overall economy. The Covid-19 impacted the world economy with enormous shock...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-12-21 00:00:00
Country's maiden metro rail is set to be inaugurated apparently without certification of standard of operations for lack of expertise in the regulatory authority to certify such a highly technical public-transportation system.A committee, earlier formed to work on the approval...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-12-21 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 20: The construction work of the Chattogram Elevated Expressway will not end within the scheduled time in March next year as the implementing agency has sought a time of over one year to finish the multi-billion Taka project....
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-12-21 00:00:00
Reckitt Benckiser says it will soon bounce back overcoming short-term challenges that caused its profit fall by 14 per cent year-on-year in the nine months through September. The multinational company that sells popular consumer products, such as Dettol, Strepsils and...
Mehnaz Lameesha | 2022-12-21 00:00:00
On a beautiful July evening in 2010, actress Nusrat Imroz Tisha was spotted as a stunning bride. Not to mention, it was her wedding day and what made her stand out was her bridal look. She chose to wear a...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-12-21 00:00:00
According to Health Bulletins published annually by the Government of Bangladesh's Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), injury was reported to be the fifth leading cause of death among above five years old Bangladeshi population in 2017 after cardiovascular disease,...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-12-20 00:00:00
Amid soaring prices of coal in the local market, the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) has found no reason behind such a price movement and recommended taking necessary measures to rein in the prices of the fuel.The BTTC conducted...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-12-20 00:00:00
Three out of four companies have showed surprising performance in the Dhaka Stock Exchange after their transfer from the Over-the-Counter market in June last year. Representatives of the companies claim that the mandatory reforms prior to the listing on the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-12-20 00:00:00
The driver of both life and economy is energy. Animals get their energy from carbohydrates in their foods. Most factories, power plants and transports run on fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons. And the burning of hydrocarbons is the major...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-12-19 00:00:00
Dhaka metro rail company is going to hire a good number of foreign technical persons to manage operations of a part of the country's first metro rail scheduled to be inaugurated on December 28.Sources said Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-12-19 00:00:00
A majority of the companies listed with the SME board plunged since the first week of October, driving down the index by 23 per cent or 373 points to 1,277. Interestingly, the decline coincided with the corporate disclosures informing investors...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-12-19 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 18: Several vessels loaded with over 0.22 million metric tonnes (MT) of wheat imported from different countries reached the Chittagong Port in the last one month, officials said. "A total of 10 ships, including 7 from Myanmar, one...
Neil Ray | 2022-12-19 00:00:00
By birth he is a Pakistani. Now a Swedish citizen, Syed Asif Shahkar has a last wish ---one that is significant in more ways than one. He wants to be laid to his eternal rest in Bangladesh soil. Aged 72,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-12-19 00:00:00
A recent World Bank (WB) report says that a substantial proportion of the pollution in Dhaka's air is not of local origin. So is the case with Chattogram and Khulna. Human activities that cause air pollution are taking place within...
Munima Sultana | 2022-12-18 00:00:00
Dhaka Metro rail company completed all its test runs by concluding two-week service trial, paving the way of starting of theCountry's first metro rail is set to start commercial operation from Uttara to Agargaon on December 28 as the authorities...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-12-18 00:00:00
The export of agriculture products through the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital is being hampered due to a number of factors, including lack of separate scanning system, insufficient cold storage facility, and inadequate explosive detection systems (EDS),...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-12-18 00:00:00
The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of Bangladesh has decided to conduct a performance audit of the existing VAT Management and Automation system and assess the outcome of the Tk 6.90 billion VAT Online Project (VOP).The move...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-12-18 00:00:00
The Dutch government is planning to invest Euro 7.0 million to help 90,000 small farming households in rural Bangladesh grow as agro entrepreneurs under a project, said a top regional boss of Solidaridad, the implementing agency of the project. "This...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-12-18 00:00:00
More than a year after the restructuring of the board of directors, scam-hit FAS Finance and Investment is yet to become functional again. Overburdened with loss and bad loans, it is in another uphill struggle to raise Tk 3-4 billion...
M A Taslim | 2022-12-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh is suffering from significant balance of payments difficulties for a considerable period which have caused multiple economic problems. Some have regarded these sufficiently serious to be called a crisis. Although the government and Bangladesh Bank are insisting on a...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-12-16 00:00:00
Kaderia Bahini was a local force of freedom fighters in Tangail region led by Bangabeer Kader Siddiqui during the liberation war. Apart from the regular and irregular Muktibahini fighters under the Mujibnagar Government, a number of forces were then raised...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-12-16 00:00:00
On the first day of March 1971, the first lethal blow was struck at the foundations of Pakistan. Ironically, the job was done by the military regime then in control, the goal obviously being a prevention of a transfer of...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-12-16 00:00:00
The first part of the country's first metro rail will be inaugurated on December 28.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has agreed to open it from Agargaon station.Road transport and highways division secretary Amin Ullah Nuri confirmed the date through an SMS...
Enayetullah Khan | 2022-12-16 00:00:00
I vividly remember 1971 December 16 as Bangladesh was liberated. Freedom had been in the air for a while and it was obvious that the Pakistani forces were going down. Every one hoped that victory would be won without too...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-12-16 00:00:00
The generation that actively fought the liberation war in 1971 or was witness to its barbaric ferocity on the one hand and humanity at its noblest on the other is depleting fast with many already taking leave of this mortal...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-12-15 00:00:00
A customs wing has detected numerous doubtful dealings in its initial scrutiny of trade-based irregularities, which are said to be linked to siphoning off foreign currencies, officials say.Trade misinvoicing like over-invoicing of imports and under-invoicing of exports is seen by...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-12-15 00:00:00
The securities regulator has been thinking hard about introducing a provision that will require cash dividends to be deposited into investors' BO (beneficiary owner's) accounts, instead of bank accounts, so that cash is readily available for reinvestment in stocks. Increasing...
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