Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-02 00:00:00
At a time when the government of Bangladesh launched a drive against unlicensed healthcare facilities for four days from Monday to Thursday, a collaborative report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Unicef (United Nations Children's Fund) claims...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Pressure on Bangladesh's foreign-exchange reserves has intensified gradually, with an outlook of dropping to US$37 billion in the first week of September from $39.05 billion as of Wednesday.Official sources make such a forecast, while the central bank continues selling the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh's pharmaceutical sector has grown faster in last five years with product diversification, innovation of new-generation drugs and rising trend in medicine consumption, yielding higher revenues for the government.Health economists, however, highlight the flip side of fast-growing medicine market as...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
No one has forgotten Chernobyl. There was, in 1986, the very real danger of the world getting caught up in a nuclear disaster when gas leaked from the plant. The danger set off by Chernobyl remains as potent today as...
Mohammad Alauddin | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Energy being the driver of economic growth and improving the quality of life, all the countries are eager to ensure energy security in order to sustain economic development, increase productivity and raise living standards. Energy security, said simply, is the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-31 12:00:00
One more non-bank financial institution, styled Nagad Finance PLC, is being born to facilitate financial-inclusion initiatives through serving more unbanked people, officials say. The board of directors of Bangladesh Bank (BB) in a meeting held Tuesday at the central bank...
Shadique Mahbub Islam | 2022-08-31 00:00:00
OTT platforms have revolutionised many aspects of the multimedia industry, but their presence is mostly felt in the thriller genre. Thriller series like 'Kaiser,' 'Shaaticup,' or 'Taqdeer' have become part of our pop culture, and there are more to come....
Morium Kulsum | 2022-08-31 00:00:00
There has been hype around the Bangabandhu Military Museum since its inauguration, and it has been attracting thousands of visitors beyond military enthusiasts. The museum is located at Bijoy Sarani, Dhaka. The museum's earliest roots date back to 1987, when...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-08-31 00:00:00
Two months back in Geneva, the trade ministers of different countries of the world sealed a deal on advancing global trade with less restrictions and more transparent rules. It was the 12th ministerial conference (MC12) of The World Trade Organisation...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-30 00:00:00
Credit flow into Bangladesh's private sector has been on the up and up pushed by rising demand, particularly for trade financing, sources say on a cautious note about a possible side-effect. The upturn is evident in July findings that also...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-08-30 00:00:00
Two telecom operators and three NTTN-licensed companies are set to lease the optical fibre network of the Bangladesh Railway (BR) for improving their respective bandwidth capacity as well as help increase earnings of the state-owned train operator.Officials said Bahon Limited,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-30 00:00:00
Fasting has traditionally been a religious practice. By abstaining from foods, drinks and various other activities that give humans pleasure, the practitioners of fasting believe they can exonerate their soul from the sin of temptation. And to resist temptations is...
Munima Sultana | 2022-08-29 00:00:00
The Chinese company concerned has submitted a detailed safety plan for the entire Joydevpur-Airport corridor for approval from the BRT project's consultants with a target to resume the construction work soon.The develoment came 13 days after a fatal accident at...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-29 00:00:00
Industrial and domestic consumers of two basic utility services - electricity and gas - paid Tk 315.35 billion taxes to the public exchequer with their consumption charges during the last five fiscal years (FY 2017-18 to FY 2021-22).The amount is...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-29 00:00:00
The central bank has decided to introduce foreign currency (FC) clearing and settlement through the RTGS system for the first time - from September 04 - to facilitate business activities, officials said.Under the new payment system, five currencies - including...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 27: A portion of the under-construction elevated expressway will be opened to traffic by the year end to facilitate vehicular movement to and from the port city through Bangabandhu Tunnel which awaits inauguration in December. Officials said, implementing...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
Global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has considered Bangladesh's exchange rate regime as a crawl-like arrangement, though the trading mechanism was further liberalised in June 2022.Since then, the taka's nominal exchange rate has depreciated by about 10 per cent...
Alasdair Pal and Aftab Ahmed | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
NEW DELHI, Aug 27 (Reuters): For years Indian television company NDTV pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism. Now a proposed takeover by tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomerate has raised fears that one of...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-08-28 00:00:00
After a strong rebound last year, there was an expectation that global trade would be on the path of steady growth in the current year. However, the Russia-Ukraine war, starting in late February, dimmed the optimism to some extent. Though...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-08-27 00:00:00
The central bank has suggested preparing a state policy on cross-border ecommerce as stakeholders say Bangladesh misses billions in such untapped online trade in goods and services. In its report to commerce ministry on modalities of the trade, the Bangladesh...
S M JAHANGIR and SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-08-27 00:00:00
Less-than-expected reform measures for ensuring labour rights hold back restoration of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility for Bangladesh by the United States, a top US trade official has said."Bangladesh has taken some initial steps to amend its labour...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-08-27 00:00:00
Stocks notched a second week of gains, as investors started coming off the sidelines to join the market rally, optimistic about improved economic outlook in coming days. Out of the five trading days this week, four sessions closed higher, thanks...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-27 00:00:00
The nation observes the anniversary of death of the country's national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam today (Saturday). Apparently there is nothing wrong with this statement. But does the nation do so? Are there the arrangements at the grassroots level and...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-27 00:00:00
Although there has been no letup so far in the rise in the cost of about everything that people of this country need to survive, there seems to be a respite at least in the skyrocketing price of egg. Indeed,...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-26 00:00:00
The government has moved to slash import taxes of two key essentials -- diesel and rice -- as high food and fuel prices amid boiling inflation hits hard ordinary people.The major step comes following instructions from government high-ups as the...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-26 00:00:00
Few people are aware that August 24 is observed as the Nari Nirjaton Protirodh Dibas (the Day of Resistance to Oppression of Women) in this country. Even the media --- both print and electronic --- seem to have forgotten the...
Golam Rasul | 2022-08-25 12:00:00
Bangladesh had been performing exceptionally well before the Covid-19 pandemic. The economy expanded, the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased, reserve of dollar grew, inflation was low and poverty levels were decreasing. Bangladesh's economy also started to recover well...
Munima Sultana | 2022-08-25 00:00:00
The cost of Padma Bridge is set to increase yet more at the fag-end of the project tenure due to unprecedented devaluation of local currency against US dollar and price escalation of construction materials over the contract price, project sources...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh's forex dealers' body will fix market-driven exchange rate daily for overseas exchange houses, as the central bank is in a drive to enforce discipline in dollar dealings.Bangladesh Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association (BAFEDA) seeks active support of the central bank...
Syful Islam | 2022-08-25 00:00:00
With very high duty and taxes in force, the Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) is facing intense competition from grey market in liquor business, officials concerned say.Presently, 425-per cent duty and taxes are imposed on liquor imports, and 310 per cent...
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