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...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-12-15 00:00:00
It is World Cup season again, this time in happy Qatar. And these are days of sheer excitement, of unbounded ecstasy and deep disappointment.On the way to my village last week, it was a Brazil-Argentina festival of colours I sped...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-12-15 00:00:00
Dodo is not a mythical bird. It lived in the island state of Madagascar before becoming extinct many years ago. The bird disappeared not because of any natural disaster of massive proportion, terrestrial or extra- terrestrial, as the Dinosaurs did...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-12-14 00:00:00
The banking sector has experienced annual erosion of stocks' market capitalization to the economic volatility at a higher rate than the overall market, with the newly-listed Union Bank and Global Islami bank excluded from the scene. The Dhaka Stock Exchange's...
MEHNAZ LAMEESH | 2022-12-14 00:00:00
An ancient style of architecture called 'Vastu Shastra' was created in the Indian subcontinent, which includes plants as an integral part of the home's interior design. According to Vastu Shastra, keeping any plant in the house would bring luck and...
Tahjibul Anam | 2022-12-14 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Dec 13: Beach bikes and cars are moving randomly on the Cox's Bazar beach, hampering environment of the beach and habitats of different animals.Meanwhile, at different points of the Ecologically Critical Area (ECA), the vehicles are being driven...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-12-13 12:00:00
The regulatory body and experts' repeated insistence on long-term stock investments for high returns falls on deaf ears, reflected in the overall market's behaviour. But a quick calculation may help translate the message given -- in black and white. Take...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-12-13 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 12: The first-ever tunnel of the country under the river Karnaphuli will open to traffic in March next year.The tunnel was scheduled to open in the current month. Sources said, the construction work of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-12-13 00:00:00
Dina Boluarte, a former lawyer, on Wednesday (December 7), became the first female president of the Andean nation, Peru. It has been an unexpected stroke of luck for her as it came following the impeachment of her former boss, president...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN, back from Sylhet | 2022-12-12 00:00:00
Hundreds of underprivileged youths, who mostly lost their jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh's north-eastern Sylhet region, are now being employed in various sectors after they received much-required skills training.Nearly 88 per cent of the youths in the region...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-12-12 00:00:00
The government has finally appointed a Chinese contractor for operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Karnaphuli Tunnel, revising a provision that 35 per cent of the five-year contract value of about Tk 9.84 billion will be paid in foreign currencies....
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-12-12 00:00:00
Japan has finally agreed to start a joint feasibility study on the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) or Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Bangladesh to bolster bilateral trade, officials say. To this end, Dhaka and Tokyo will make...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-12-12 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 11: Once a losing concern, the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation had earned much more than spent in the last three consecutive financial years while its net profits also significantly rose in the 36-month period. Due to its overall better...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-12-12 00:00:00
The seven-year-low fund raised via rights shares this year has been blamed largely on the tightening of regulatory measures, but experts believe the decline happened to the advantage of investors with the fund abusers dissuaded. The authority has also been...
Neil Ray | 2022-12-12 00:00:00
Even though it is still Agrahayan --- the last month of the season of Hemanta or late Fall or Autumn --- on the Bangla calendar, the air is ripe with wintry chill. The array of vegetables that bear the stamp...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-12-12 00:00:00
A fringe group that believes in conspiracy theory and want to take their country back to pre-World War II era, more specifically, to the time of Second Reich in 1871, did hatch a plot to overthrow the modern democratic German...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2022-12-11 12:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 09: Extended by two years, the Chattogram-Dohazari-Cox's Bazar-Gumdhum (CDCG) rail route project is likely to be completed one ahead of the latest deadline fixed earlier this year, an official said.Originally scheduled to be completed in June this year...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-12-11 00:00:00
Thousands of investors burnt their fingers in the stock market debacles in 1996 and 2010, and many of them are yet to recover from the financial damages inflicted on them in the latest incident. They see the value of their...
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana | 2022-12-11 00:00:00
Cities are key players in combating climate change and its effects. They are responsible for 70 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and consume 80 per cent of global energy. Thus, without significant changes in the way cities produce...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-12-11 00:00:00
The momentum of the world trade, which rebounded strongly in 2021, slowed down in the second half of the outgoing year and remained subdued in the third quarter. The last quarter is yet to end and it will take a...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-12-10 00:00:00
Food security takes top priority in Bangladesh, amid global alert to crisis-time famines, as the government asks banks to take funds to farmers' doors to reduce costly NGO lending. Officials say aiming to ensure easy access of farmers to bank...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-12-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh will hardly derive any benefit from the transshipment facilities by exporting its products through Indian territories to third countries, according to an assessment by the National Board of Revenue (NBR).India has widened the facilities by including riverine routes with...
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