Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2021-03-17 00:00:00
It was a crisp, biting winter afternoon when I set out on my way home, my left hand on the handlebar of the bicycle, my right hand holding a huge portrait, in colour, of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. I kept...
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, and Cynthia Veliko | 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Migrants move in search of safer and better lives. They contribute to the welfare and sustainable development of their countries of origin and destination. Yet, they face complex human rights challenges and vulnerabilities that we must address to ensure that...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2021-03-17 00:00:00
The spectre of inflation is stalking, not only Europe, but the whole world. The prospect of high inflation emerging out of the pandemic is becoming more real and threatening as months go by. According to the weekly Economist (February 17),...
Siddique Islam and Babul Barman | 2021-03-16 00:00:00
The central bank has decided to increase by 5.0 percentage points the maximum ceiling of dividend offered by banks to the shareholders.If implemented, the banks would be able to declare maximum 35 per cent dividend from the existing level of...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2021-03-16 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Tele-communication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is set to install a state-of-the-art benchmarking system to strengthen the commission's capacity to monitor service quality of its licensees. The commission invited an international tender last week for supply, installation and commissioning of...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-03-16 00:00:00
The central bank is learnt to have created a Tk.5 billion fund to provide financial support to the start-ups in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), in short IT, sector. Undoubtedly, it is a commendable move on the part of...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-03-15 12:00:00
The pandemic is not yet over. From the early part of December last, the intensity of Covid-19 was on the decline. But from the first day of the current month, the rate of infection took a reverse turn and the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2021-03-15 00:00:00
The central bank has extended the tenure of its different policy supports to export trade by three more months amid the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said.The exporters will now enjoy the facilities until June 30 this year, according to a notification...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2021-03-15 00:00:00
The securities regulator is working independently without facing pressures or entertaining undue demands from any quarter, its head says.Instead, "Our control over the market is increasing day by day," chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) Prof Shibli...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2021-03-15 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, March 14: The transportation of goods by the waterway, through most important commercial hubs at Chaktai and Khatungonj, is being hampered as all the 24 ghats of Chaktai Khal (Chatkai canal) have been inoperative day after day.The importers cannot...
Neil Ray | 2021-03-15 00:00:00
It was his birthday. But eight-year-old Yasin, admitted to a madrasha only a few months back, with his kind of family background could not have the luxury of celebrating the day by cutting a birthday cake at the residential accommodation...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-03-14 00:00:00
Touhida Tohu, a boutique entrepreneur, had no idea of how an initiative could turn her life from penniless to well-off during the coronavirus pandemic. Since her earnings remained stopped following the closure of all boutique shops and missing of the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-03-14 00:00:00
The government is likely to bring electric vehicles (EVs) under the tax net in the budget for next fiscal year (FY) due to its growing popularities.Currently, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) cannot impose Advance Income Tax (AIT) on the...
Tobias Adrian, Thor Jonasson, Ayhan Kose, and Anderson Silva | 2021-03-14 00:00:00
Paychecks for teachers, new hospital equipment, social assistance programs, and other public expenditures. All depend to large extent on governments' ability to fund them. When governments-particularly those in emerging and developing economies-need money to pay these and other goods and...
REZAUL KARIM | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
India's likely ban on export of jute seeds has raised concerns among Bangladesh's millers, cultivators and the government, official sources said.The neighbouring country is likely to take the decision on the ban with a view to meeting its domestic demand...
Ismail Hossain | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
The government has started a move to include the small and medium enterprises, which have been left out of the benefit of the government's Covid-19 stimulus for the CMSME sector, in a database to help them get necessary loans under...
MUNIMA SULTANA AND SYFUL ISLAM | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
A recent action by the officials of the Road Transport and Highways Division has surprised their counterparts in other ministries.The division has also been accused of breaching the official norms and the government's rules of business, officials said.The surprising move...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, March 12: A Tk 60 billion project taken up by Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) to resolve the waterlogging problem is being hampered due to the construction of walls in front of sluice gates of 11 canals. The flow of...
BABUL BARMAN | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
Stocks ended marginally higher for the second straight week that ended on Thursday as enthusiastic investors continued their buying interest on selective large-cap issues.The market witnessed high volatility during the week as investors were active on both sides of the...
Md. Neyamul Islam | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
Political willingness of the governments can significantly contribute to the inclusive growth in South Asia. Strong regional connectivity is central in ensuring food security, job creation, better nutrition, education, skill development, and sanitation. Significant imbalance of power among nations is...
Nilratan Halder | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
A nostalgic journey down the memory lane at an advanced age retrieves small joys, wonders and bits and pieces of treasures one thought lost forever. Some of them stand no chance of staging a comeback. The long home confinement of...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-03-13 00:00:00
With the advent of winter, Europe and North America saw a resurgence of the pandemic. Even worse, a new strain of the Covid-19 that can disseminate the infection faster was detected first in the UK and then in the rest...
Nilratan Halder | 2021-03-12 12:00:00
The generation that fought the Liberation War in 1971 is on the way out. It is the youths in the age group between 18 and 30 who joined the war for liberation of the motherland in a far greater number...
Siddique Islam | 2021-03-12 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to form a startup refinancing fund worth Tk 5.0 billion, aiming to develop entrepreneurship in the country, officials said.The decision was taken at a meeting of the central bank's board of directors, held at...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-03-12 00:00:00
The government has downsized the national budget by 5.28 per cent to Tk 5.38 trillion for the current fiscal year, compelled by a significant shortfall in tax collection as the fallout of COVID-19.The original budget size was Tk 5.68 trillion.Of...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2021-03-12 00:00:00
The government has prepared a master plan to increase the country's productivity rate in a bid to face the competitive global market, an official said.Under the move, the Ministry of Industries (MoI) has a plan to raise the productivity rate...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-03-12 00:00:00
With the number of Covid-19 deaths fluctuating, the rate of infection has gone up for the past couple of weeks. The number of new infection hovered between a little over 300 and 500 throughout February last. But it started rising...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-03-11 00:00:00
Progress in mega projects in Bangladesh is likely to be disrupted in the absence of vaccination measures for hundreds of foreign nationals working at field level.Among the foreigners, the government has prioritised diplomats and mission offices in the first phase...
Siddique Islam | 2021-03-11 00:00:00
Nagad, a digital service of Bangladesh Post Office, has expressed willingness to provide its digital financial services to four banks, including the state-run Rupali Bank.In this connection, the country's fastest-growing mobile financial services (MFS) provider submitted proposal letters to the...
Jemima Islam | 2021-03-11 00:00:00
Cox's Bazar Student Society (CSS) is a non-profit organisation that was established in 2012 with a motto of helping students and underprivileged people of Cox's Bazar. Nine years into operation, they have done some exemplary works for the well-being of...
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