Neil Ray | 2022-08-08 00:00:00
Mayor Atiqul Islam of the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) deserves kudos for coming up with yet another innovative plan. This time his brainchild is an introduction of QR code (an initialism for quick response code which is a two...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-08-08 00:00:00
Into the fourth week of his new job as the central bank governor, Mr Abdur Rauf Talukder initiated an action that many of his predecessors, deliberately or otherwise, had skipped. He, as his latest move suggests, wants to ensure good...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-08-07 12:00:00
Over the years, steps have been taken by the government to turn Bangladesh's sluggish debt market vibrant. Nevertheless, it all proved insufficient to achieve the end. Converting the non-tradable fixed-income government securities into tradable ones may be an option now....
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2022-08-07 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 06: The latest fuel oil price hike spelt untold miseries for the port city commuters, especially workplace-bound ones and school going students on Saturday.Their sufferings were mainly caused by an indefinite transport strike called by the Chattogram Metropolitan...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-08-07 00:00:00
A much-needed move to sign FTAs/PTAs with potential countries and economic blocs apparently lacks pace, thereby holding back the inking of the deals due to a lukewarm response.Although the government has since long made the initiative to sign such deals...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-07 00:00:00
The VAT officials would have to face difficulties in cross-checking the financial details furnished in the VAT (Value Added Tax) returns filed by the global technology giants as the companies do not have their respective offices in Bangladesh.The main obstacle...
SYFUL ISLAM and REZAUL KARIM | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh will push for securing the benefits it enjoys under the SAFTA deal when negotiations on Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) start with India soon, officials say.As a least developed country (LDC) all but 25 tobacco and alcohol products of...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Stocks rebounded strongly in the week to Thursday, paring two weeks of losses, amid high optimism as the securities regulator reintroduced the 'floor price' for all the equities.Continuous fall of share prices prompted the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC)...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
The national newspapers in Bangladesh have started to become slimmer. How the readers whose number is likely to decrease with the increase in price by Tk 2.0 on an average are reacting to this may be an interesting query. At...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Eminent litterateur Anisul Haque had written in an article back in 1997, "He is a peddler of light, a magical man in the city of memories. As the dusk dawned and the earth got submerged in darkness, the man was...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
The US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip has left the diplomatic community wondering if it marks a shift from the US's long-held one-China policy. Notably, during the last four decades plus years this has been the guiding principle of...
Ismail Hossain | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Mizanur Rahman, a retail investor was struggling as the stock market had been seesawing for a while after he had invested a good amount of his savings in the share market. During that time, the market was plummeting, and the...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-08-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to find and develop suitable models to provide care for its growing aging population. Old homes have been built here but complete residential isolation of the older parents and living with strangers have not been well liked by...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
Taxes on a slew of commodities are set to increase as the government further squeezes imports under crunch-time austerity to mitigate pressure on Bangladesh's foreign-exchange reserves. Officials say that, attuned to the government austerity measures, the revenue board again moves...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
A move has been made to form a new company to operate and issue single e-ticket for all mass transport as the metro rail is expected to roll this December.The government has already introduced rapid pass, an integrated circuit (IC)...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommunica-tion Regulatory Commission (BTRC) declared mobile tower company Edotco Bangladesh as a significant market power (SMP).The regulator also imposed some restrictions on Edotco following the SMP declaration.As per the restrictions, Edotco - from now on - cannot lease,...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-05 00:00:00
The draft Education Act now under review of the Cabinet Division for the fifth time since 2011 is supposed to help implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2010. If approved by the cabinet ministers, it is going to be the...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-04 00:00:00
All authorized dealer (AD) banks can now retain value-added portion of export proceeds in foreign currency for 15 days, as the central bank bends rules to boost Bangladesh's forex reserves. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) Wednesday issued a notification to this...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-08-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh has allowed India to use a part of its road network in Sylhet region to facilitate transportation of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and petroleum oil (POL) between their two northeastern states of Assam and Tripura.Officials said the permission was...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-08-04 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina spoke for many nations around the world when she recently demanded that the sanctions imposed on Russia be lifted. It was a bold move, one that should be equally voiced by especially those countries which have...
M Kabir Hassan and Ayoub Ghalim | 2022-08-04 00:00:00
The exchange of goods and services between human beings is probably as old a practice as the human race itself. It all started when people knew they could specialise in producing certain goods and exchange it for others that were...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
An 18-member national technical team of the revenue board will work to make the customs-assessment system paperless through automation.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) formed the body - 'Customs Automation National Technical Team' - on Monday comprising its officials of...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
The government has issued a set of instructions, including a cut in the freight charges, to make the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (ICT) more operational and effective.It also asked the authorities concerned to take steps for reducing existing tariffs for...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
Cleanup action continues to manage Bangladesh's volatile forex market as 14 moneychangers are being meted out punitive actions in government bid to tame the dollar and stabilise reserves. Sources said nine of the entities were going to be shut down...
Munima Sultana | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
The Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) is still in dire straits with the Tk 520-million Dhaka Integrated Traffic Management Project (DITMP), sources said. The authorities concerned are yet to fix the fate of the project on four intersection signal development...
Shadique Mahbub Islam | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
Food Vlogging. The very mention of the phrase takes the readers to YouTube or Facebook videos where a person is travelling to various places and enjoying different foods while entertaining the audience. Food vlogging, or Food video blogging, is presenting...
Lubaba Mahjabin | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
Explaining intellectual content with situational humour, that too in Bangla, Enayet Chowdhury stands out as a content creator. His eccentric approach to video making and presentation has earned him a loyal audience base and massive respect. In an exclusive conversation...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-02 12:00:00
Railway accidents in Bangladesh are not purely about collision between trains or derailment of a train and their attendant deaths and injuries. Though it may sound somewhat odd, many of such accidents involve speeding trains ramming buses, trucks, microbuses, you...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh's current-account deficit hits an 'all-time high' at $18.70 billion as widening trade gap coupled with lower remittance receipts upsets the country's macroeconomic balance, officials say.The trade deficit exceeded $33-billion mark in the just-past fiscal year (FY), 2021-22, for higher...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The Ministry of Shipping (MoS) backed the Tk 15.50-billion 'Pashur channel maintenance dredging project' as an 'electoral pledge' of the government and suggested that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) should provide Tk 13.95 billion as grant instead of loan, sources...
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