NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-06-04 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, June 03: The Matarbari deep-sea port will be connected by a train link with the port city and Dhaka as a new railway track will be set up leading to the Chattogram-Gumdum-Cox's Bazar dual gauge double line. Sources said...
Abdulla-Al-Mamun | 2022-06-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) is a pioneer institute in the field of rural development in Bangladesh. The journey of this pioneering institute started 63 years ago on 27 May 1959. BARD is located in a beautiful natural setting...
Md. Touhidul Alam Khan | 2022-06-04 00:00:00
World Environment Day (WED) is an important occasion to recognise environmental efforts and celebrate the importance of protecting the environment for human existence. Every day, even without knowing it, we are harming our environment in one way or another. Our...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-06-04 00:00:00
Patients in Bangladesh in general express displeasure and frustration at the services they receive from many healthcare facilities, particularly those from public sector providers and lesser-known, smaller private facilities. Services are also perceived to be poorer in quality and inadequate...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-06-03 00:00:00
The local currency depreciated significantly against the US dollar Thursday as Bangladesh again allowed banks to fix their exchange rates freely on the foreign-exchange market, officials said.The central bank allowed the authorised dealer (AD) banks to fix their exchange rates...
M. Kabir Hasan and Mohammad Dulal Miah | 2022-06-03 00:00:00
South Asian economies are cruising through a tough time in terms of macroeconomic stability. Sri Lanka is already on the verge of economic collapse; the economic strength and stability of Pakistan have been gradually turning from bad to worse. India,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-06-02 00:00:00
The government is likely to consider providing tax benefits to local manufacturers of ICT products in the upcoming budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022-23, while imposing high taxes on import of finished goods, sources said.The imports of raw materials for...
Siddique Islam | 2022-06-02 00:00:00
Devious deals by banks trigger current forex volatility in Bangladesh, a probe finds and the central bank begins quizzing them over the anomalies, officials say. The Bangladesh Bank is seeking clarification from the suspect banks particularly on conceal of information...
Syed L. Ali Bahram | 2022-06-02 00:00:00
In the last 12 years or so the country witnessed a good number of development projects which can be termed as mega projects. The mega projects, whose completion is expected to raise Bangladesh's GDP by as much as 4 per...
Julian Francis | 2022-06-02 00:00:00
I have seen Zahid Huq's 'Opinion' writing of May 27, 2022, and thought that I should point out that this kind of corruption has been going on forever and is clearly commonplace regardless of the government is in power. It...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-06-02 00:00:00
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is in the seventieth year of her reign as monarch. The sense of excitement in the platinum jubilee celebrations of her years as sovereign is therefore one that is perceptible all across the country. For the...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
A new entity of the Sonali Bank Ltd will be set up in the United Kingdom as the existing one will be shut in August next being ordered by the Bank of England, officials said.The new body will be named...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
The Korean company which was selected as the operation and maintenance (O&M) operator of part of the Padma Bridge is set to do the same for the country's first expressway.The Dhaka-Mawa-Pachchar-Bhanga expressway is connected on both sides of the country's...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
Submitting proof of tax-return submission may be mandatory for availing different services in public and private entities from the upcoming fiscal year, as a preventive measure against TIN tricks.Currently, these services from public and private entities could be taken on...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
Against a backdrop of the soaring prices of edible oil in the country, the government is set to take an initiative to devise strategies for ramping up rice bran oil production aiming to cut dependency on widely-consumed soybean and palm...
Siddique Islam | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
Mercantile Bank Limited (MBL) has planned to bring more un-banked people into its network through setting up more sub-branches and agent banking outlets across the country, the bank's top executive has said. "We're giving priority to ensure achieving sustainable business...
Nazimuddin Shyamol | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 31: Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has signed an agreement with two Korean companies for the final architectural and navigational design of the Bay Terminal Construction Project at Chittagong seaport. The Government Procurement Committee approved the Korean companies named...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
Tofazzul Hossain popularly known as Manik Mia, in his youth, came in contact with Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy, a charismatic politician of united Bengal. They developed close relationship. Suhrawardy became the mentor of Manik Mia and in him, Suhrawardy found a...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
The question conveyed by the heading should appear as superfluous because, unarguably, all the economies in the world have been facing crises in the wake of the two-year long Covid-19 pandemic, now made worse by the on-going war in Ukraine....
Munima Sultana | 2022-05-31 00:00:00
Travelling on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway is likely to be costlier as the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has proposed increasing the rate of per-kilometre toll from Tk 10 to Tk 34.70 after the much-awaited Padma Bridge inauguration on June 25.Though...
Siddique Islam | 2022-05-31 00:00:00
Banks are asked to encash the value-added portion of export proceeds within the next working day to help improve supply of foreign exchange to the money market, officials say.The central bank also directs all the authorized dealer (AD) bankers to...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-05-31 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to get a new building with all logistic and advanced facilities after 49 years of its inception.The 12-storey building in the city's Agargaon area is set to be completed by June at...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-05-31 00:00:00
The Texas shooting that killed 19 elementary schoolchildren and two teachers at Uvalde seems to have shaken America and the rest of the world. To think that a teenager--a 18-year-old boy-- with a gun going on a rampage in a...
M Shahidul Islam | 2022-05-31 00:00:00
After decades of price stability, notably in advanced economies, prices of food and non-food commodities are on the rise globally. The annual inflation rate in the United States (US) soared to a four-decade high of 8.5 per cent in March,...
Siddique Islam | 2022-05-30 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Taka (BDT) is going to depreciate further by 1.25 per cent against the US dollar (US$), as the central bank has decided to allow the depreciation for reining in volatility of the forex market.The local currency is set...
Neil Ray | 2022-05-30 00:00:00
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) issued on May 25 last a directive for closure of all unregistered private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres within 72 hours. About the merit of the move there is no doubt. Health facilities...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
Around six and half years back, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, to negotiate a series of unfinished multilateral trade agendas. Three proposed mega-regional trade deals had cast a shadow on...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-28 12:00:00
A slow but sure change in the pattern of seasonal cycle is taking place in this part of the world. Climatologists have sounded alarm bell ringing about the rising temperature, only more so for countries in the South Asian region....
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
The country expects huge economic benefits from the dream Padma Bridge project, though experts suggest taking timely policy and supportive measures to reap maximum benefits from the country's longest bridge after its inauguration next month.Economists, researchers and business communities believe...
SYFUL ISLAM and REZAUL KARIM | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
Diversification of export destinations and pursuing a pragmatic export policy are among the dos in a contingency recipe the government has got from the business community for weathering headwinds facing the economy.The other recommendations include extending all types of facilities...
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