Mohammad Mainul Islam, Md Zakiul Alam, Sayema Haque Bidisha, and S M Abdullah | 2021-03-06 00:00:00
Caesarean delivery (C-section), a major surgical procedure to deliver a baby through incisions, has become increasingly common in developing countries like Bangladesh. The 2017-2018 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data reported the C-section delivery rate to be 33 per cent...
Tanjim-Ul-Islam | 2021-03-06 00:00:00
For urban middle-class students of the University of Dhaka, the pandemic-induced closure has largely been an extended vacation. It was competely different for residential students.Many of them faced great financial trouble at the beginning of the pandemic. At that point...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-03-06 00:00:00
Gradually the Burmese military has started to bare its fangs as the civil disobedience movement against its seizure of power by force has been showing no sign of calming down. Such behaviour of the Burmese people who had seen more...
Siddique Islam | 2021-03-05 00:00:00
Imports from the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) member countries increased by more than 11 per cent in the January-February period of this calendar year, officials said.The amount of ACU payment rose to US$1.42 billion during the period of 2021 from...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2021-03-05 00:00:00
The construction work of metro rail from Airport Station to Kamalapur Station is likely to start early next year, amid challenges of completing the utility shifting work and finalising the detailed design.Sources said Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) has...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2021-03-05 00:00:00
A special tribunal created only to deal with stock market-related cases is having an idle time since it does not have any work to do, according to tribunal sources. The situation has been more or less the same for the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-03-05 00:00:00
Bangladesh, after many years, is not in the comfort zone as far as the food security issue is concerned.A recent report of the Global Agricultural Information network of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has predicted a notable increase...
Nilratan Halder | 2021-03-05 00:00:00
The United Nations Committee for Development Policy recommends on February 27 that Bangladesh be formally recognised as a developing nation in 2026. Had there been no pandemic, the formal transition would have taken place two years earlier in 2024. Coming...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2021-03-04 12:00:00
There are currently around 4,500 registered factories under the Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). About 4.20 million women work at these ready-made garments (RMG) factories accounting for over 60 percent of the total workforce. Most of these women...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2021-03-04 00:00:00
A meeting of the national price monitoring and fixing committee under the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) on Wednesday could not come to a consensus on a proposal of price hike of soybean oil. The meeting was held at...
BABUL BARMAN | 2021-03-04 00:00:00
The government's revenue earnings from the prime bourse marked a whopping 101 per cent rise in the first eight months of the current fiscal year (FY) compared to the same period of the previous fiscal amid rising trading volume.Market insiders...
Maliat Rahman and Afra Ibnat | 2021-03-04 00:00:00
Amidst every uncertainty brought by the pandemic, young enthusiasts continue to bloom like flowers by engaging themselves in the blessings of the virtual world. To serve these ingenious minds with linguistic and analytical battle, Holy Cross College English Language Club...
Abdullahel Bari | 2021-03-04 00:00:00
Shipbuilding, which dates back to the pre-historic era, was financed by the community, not in terms of money alone but through resources and labour. The most formidable and ancient floats were built by old fallen logs fastened together by twiners--...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2021-03-04 00:00:00
It was a forgone conclusion that Bangladesh would graduate out of least developed countries (LDC) after the remaining formality was completed in February this year. Now that the official confirmation in this regard has been made by the UN Committee...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2021-03-03 00:00:00
Benefits of tax exemptions on essential commodities hardly reach the end-users as international price fluctuations, hoarding, production and availability of products work as major deterrents.Officials at the National Board of Revenue (NBR) have said they are losing a significant amount...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2021-03-03 00:00:00
The Myanmar envoy to the United Nations, Kyaw Moe Tun, has publicly denounced the coup d'etat in his country and has asked the global body and its member-states to take action against the military leaders who have deposed the elected...
Rezaul Karim | 2021-03-02 00:00:00
The Ministry of Food has proposed cutting the import duty on rice further by 10 per cent to 15 per cent with a view to encouraging traders to import the staple in higher volume, sources said.The move for slashing import...
Siddique Islam | 2021-03-02 00:00:00
The capital base of the country's banks has improved marginally in 2020 mainly due to the 'decline' in the volume of their non-performing loans (NPLs), officials said.The capital-to-risk weighted-asset ratio (CRAR) of all the scheduled banks rose to 11.64 per...
Ismail Hossain | 2021-03-02 00:00:00
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) has made a move to reshuffle and revitalize its vigilant system on the chartered accountant firms to make them more compliant and bring in high-quality financial reports.The national accounting and auditing regulator,...
Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem, and Towfiqul Islam Khan | 2021-03-02 00:00:00
From the perspectives of turnaround, rebound and recovery, the Bangladesh external sector performance evinces a mixed picture as one traces the developments from the vantage point of February 2021. One recalls that both exports and imports were under pressure even...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2021-03-02 00:00:00
A recent study based on a survey conducted by a legal aid and pro-rights body, 'Ain O Shalish Kendra (ASK), says that 64 per cent of the children it surveyed have their own mobile phones. As told by the posts...
Md Khaled Mamun | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
Optimistically enough we are celebrating the 2nd National Insurance Day today. In order to reaffirm the purposes of insurance in our social and economic lifecycle, the government introduced such an energizing event, the first of its kind, back in 2020.To...
S M Ziaul Hoque | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh Insurance Industry has unlimited possibilities for development and protection. The role of insurance in managing the risks in an economy is an important one as far as growth and prosperity are concerned. In a micro-economic perspective on the one...
Ismail Hossain | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) will no longer be able to import and install dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) equipment for the fiber optic network, leased from National Telecommunication Transmission Networks (NTTNs) or other entities.The decision was taken at 245th commission...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has asked the posh Dhaka Club Limited (DCL) to pay the arrear value added tax (VAT) worth Tk. 336 million immediately, or else its bank accounts would be frozen.The Customs Excise and VAT Commissionerate,...
Chowdhury Nabila Tasnim | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has reduced the level of economic activity across the world, forcing countries and individuals to change their consumption patterns and the ways they work. Social distancing rules potentially threatened to jeopardise further the livelihood...
Neil Ray | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
Some of the moving stories carried in newspapers on Friday and Saturday are sure to moist many an eye. Two of these concern a boy and a girl ---both 11 years old --- in separate incidents and the other one...
hamsul Huq Zahid | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
As expected, the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN CDP) early Saturday recommended that Bangladesh be taken out of the list of the least developed countries (LDCs) in 2026. When it is done, Bangladesh will be regarded as a...
Tobias Adrian and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli | 2021-03-01 00:00:00
We value innovation and diversity-including in money. In the same day, we might pay by swiping a card, waving a phone, or clicking a mouse. Or we might hand over notes and coins, though in many countries increasingly less often.Today's...
REZAUL KARIM | 2021-02-28 00:00:00
Local refiners have demanded yet another hike in the mill gate prices of edible oils, sources said. Following a meeting with the refiners only 10 days back, the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) raised the prices of all types of edible...
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