Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-26 00:00:00
How much is too much? When the number of unsolicited short message service (SMS) texts sent by different cell phone companies to their subscribers is a staggering 1.52 billion on an average each day, one can't help wondering about the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-02-26 00:00:00
In its latest move, Russia is learnt to have begun aggression against Ukraine. Earlier, Russia termed it 'military operation' in the breakaway areas of the eastern Ukraine purportedly in response to the call of the separatist leaders of the Donbasarea...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-02-25 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority moves to look into some key factors like payment of subcontracting bills in foreign currencies over apparel exporters' plea for VAT waiver.The value-added tax (VAT) policy wing under the National Board of Revenue (NBR) would also review...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-02-25 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, reportedly, asked the relevant agencies to reduce in phases the volume of government subsidies on power and gas. The PM's directive came at the routine meeting of the executive committee of the national economic council...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-25 00:00:00
The inauguration of the pilot programme of the new education curriculum marks a quantum leap from an outmoded and less useful system to a highly advanced and useful one. This educational pilot programme was originally scheduled to begin phase-wise from...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-02-24 12:00:00
According to estimates, the proportion of older people (over 60 years) in Bangladesh will be 22 per cent in 2050 with about 36 million people compared to the current 8 per cent with about 13 million people. This suggests that...
Munima Sultana | 2022-02-24 00:00:00
Vistas of Saudi investment in Bangladesh under public-private partnership (PPP) opens as development and operation of port terminals in Potenga and Payra are picked first by the Saudi government.Sources say three terminal projects in Potenga and Payra along the Bay...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-02-24 00:00:00
The volume of customers' stuck- up funds with 25 e-commerce platforms would be around Tk 5.60 billion, a latest central bank report has revealed, which is much higher than the previous estimate of Tk 2.14 billion.According to the report obtained...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-02-24 00:00:00
Not the haunting of a 'spectre', as Marx and Engels declared in a different context in 1848, inflation is riding high in the economies of the world -- small, medium and large -- and is threatening to go out of...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-02-23 00:00:00
The government is gradually getting less interested in developing bus rapid transit (BRT) lines due to the bitter experience it was facing while trying to develop the first bus-based mass transit line from Gazipur to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).As...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-02-23 00:00:00
The European Union moves to launch a new initiative with Bangladesh to synchronise the latter's public-and private-sector interests for tapping growing business potential unhindered. Officials say the engagement in extensive business dealings is planned under the rubric 'EU-Bangladesh: Meaning Business'....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-02-21 12:00:00
The numbers that refer to positive development could often be misleading. The country's per capita income is one such number. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), in its final estimate, has hiked the country GDP growth rate to 6.94 per...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
On February 21 in 1952, tragedy struck Dhaka, indeed the whole of East Bengal, when the police fired on the student demonstrators gathered in defence of the Bangla language on the campus of Dhaka University The next day, 22 February,...
Bashir Al Helal | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
Language Movement began in 1947 and reached its climax in the killing of 21 February 1952, and ended in the adoption of Bangla as one of the state languages of Pakistan. The question as to what would be the state...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
Mother languages may be compared to a mother's milk because of the joy and freedom associated with expressing in mother-tongue. Bangladesh is a land where the name of the country as well as language has remained inseparable. Although the people...
Neil Ray | 2022-02-21 00:00:00
There is hardly any controversy over the contention that the young generation is generally inclined to browsing smartphones and losing interest in reading books. A decline in reading habit is not a recent phenomenon, in fact it had begun well...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-02-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 19: The time for completing Karnaphuli Capital Dredging project, beset with many problems and delayed multiple times earlier, including coronavirus outbreak and the consecutive lockdown, has been extended once again.Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), the implementing authority of the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2022-02-20 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has taken an initiative of holding training programmes for the owners and managements of all stock brokers to aware them protecting investors' money and shares.The premier bourse DSE has come up with the training programmes following...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-02-20 00:00:00
Inflation is rising across the world. Households in many countries as a result have started to feel the pinch of price hikes of essential commodities and services like food, housing, energy and transport. Thus, the cost of living is rising...
BABUL BARMAN | 2022-02-19 12:00:00
The benchmark index in the Dhaka stock market plummeted in the outgoing week after a single-week break, as investors rushed to book profit ahead of annual earnings and dividend declaration season.Of the five trading days this week, three sessions faced...
Nabila Noshin | 2022-02-19 00:00:00
Poverty is one of the most challenging issues especially in Bangladesh, which needs to be addressed through the multidimensional lens. Poverty alleviation in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges humanity continues to face. Understanding poverty holistically as...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-19 00:00:00
As a consumer, everyone is different and so are personal likes and dislikes. However, when it comes to making a choice of consumer goods from the staple to the toiletries to the fancy items with no utility value except for...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-02-19 00:00:00
After industrial effluents, sewage and plastics, we have now pharmaceutical products polluting rivers and threatening human as well as aquatic life. A study carried out by the University of York on 258 rivers in 104 countries has come up with...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
Pay for land and crops both if to construct power tower, an updated government policy says about compensation to the landowner concerned. The government has amended the Power Rules 2020 to specify the process of compensation to the landowners on...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
The regulator brings operations of banks' offshore banking units (OBU) under its close watch following a steep rise in demand for foreign-currency loans, particularly in private sector.As part of the regulatory move, sources say, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has included...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Thailand may start negotiations on signing a free trade agreement (FTA) in the upcoming foreign office consultation (FoC) which is expected to be held in Bangkok on March 1 next, sources said.They said foreign secretaries of the two...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Feb 17: Construction work of the Deep Sea Port in Matarbari area of Cox's Bazar district is going on in full gear now after a halt due to coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown.An official having full knowledge of...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
'IPO pipeline dries as cos duck listings' screamed the headline of the page-one lead story of the FE's last Wednesday's issue. The IPO (initial public offering) basket of the securities regulator, according to the FE report, is almost empty. One...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-02-18 00:00:00
The economic outlook of Bangladesh is robust. This is the considered opinion of multilateral bodies like the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). According to these international financial institutions, Bangladesh will achieve...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-02-17 00:00:00
The second meeting of the special committee to fix metro-rail fares ended inconclusively on Wednesday as it found lack of adequate information necessary to determine the same.Held after more than a year, the meeting however identified that information like per...
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